The main European stock exchanges today opened at a low level, due to the increased tensions between Tehran and the USA, which generates oil price increases, in a week when the central banks of the USA, the United Kingdom and Japan meet.
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14/09/2026
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Lusa
At 09:00 in Lisbon, the EuroStoxx 600 dropped 0.04% to 638.83 points.
The Paris and Frankfurt grants were 0.66% and 0.32%, while the Madrid and Milan scholarships were 0.27% and 0.41%, respectively.
London was the exception, as it rose by 0.54%.
The Lisbon grant maintained the downward trend of opening, with the main index, PSI, falling 0.32% to 9,494.66 points.
The euro was down from the dollar, down from 0.43% and being exchanged at $1.1549 on the Frankfurt exchange market.
The uncertainty remains about the future of navigation through the Strait of Ormuz after the Iranian authorities and Oman cancelled without date the meeting scheduled for Monday in Muscat with the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council to address the issue.
This causes further increases in oil after last Friday’s downfall, ending five consecutive increases.
The price of the generic Brent oil barrel contract, of reference in Europe, advances 2.76% to $17.60, after reaching last morning $108.49, and that of the West Texas Intermediate (WTI), of reference in the United States of America (USA), rises 2.76% to $12.81.
The price of the active contract of natural gas on the Dutch TFF market, reference in Europe, is 5.69% to 84,045 euros per megawatt-hour (MWh).
In a week when three central banks, that of the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan, hold meetings to decide their monetary policies, after a quarter point increase in the rates of the European Central Bank (ECB) last week, and the inflation data of the euro area and several European countries will be known, Wall Street futures fall by 0.14% for Dow Jones and 1.5% for Nasdaq.
The two indexes ended on Friday.
The Fed's monetary policy meeting takes place on 15 and 16 September and there are doubts as to whether the principal rates will be maintained in the range of 3.50%-3.75% or whether they will increase, which will follow that of the Bank of England on Thursday and that of the Bank of Japan.
Investors will also be alert to the debate on the regulation of artificial intelligence (IA), while US President Donald Trump considered “negative forces” those asking for more standards and defended that he wants to preserve leadership over China in this matter.
The debate around the AI also caused falls on Asian scholarships.
In Asia, Tokyo’s main stock exchange index, Nikkei, closed down 0.81%, Shanghai’s stock exchange reference index yielded 0.07% and Shenzhen’s stock exchange dropped 0.64%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng was the exception and climbed 0.35% just before the end of the session.
More sharply, the South Korean Kospi fell 3.26%.
In the face of the rises of oil and gas, precious metals fall, in the case of gold 0.67%, with the ounce at 4,319.95 dollars, and in the case of silver 1.43%, to $63,5668 dollars.
With the steady increase in oil prices and the rise in the ECB's leading rates, German debt interest to 10 years rises to 3,528%, a maximum of always.
Similarly, US debt interest to 10 years continues to rise to 4.962%, a maximum since October 2023.
In the cryptocurrency market, bitcoin rose 0.30% to $77.552.