Due to the U.S. and UK markets being closed on Monday, European stock indices modestly declined. Still, optimistic Wall Street futures were maintained by the news that the U.S. had achieved a debt ceiling agreement over the weekend.
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As long as concerns about inflation and potential interest rate increases persist, the agreement is anticipated only temporarily to calm the markets.
Most Asian stocks increased, with Tokyo’s Nikkei reaching a 33-year high. But as data revealed that profits in Chinese industrial businesses were declining, Chinese stocks plummeted.
The MSCI world equities index was up 0.1% at 11:50 GMT. The STOXX 600 in Europe fell by 0.1% on the day after European stock indices had opened higher.
However, Wall Street futures increased, with Nasdaq e-minis rising 0.4% and S&P 500 e-minis rising 0.3%. Due to public holidays.U.S. six-month credit default swaps shrank, lowering the cost of short-term insurance against exposure to a U.S. debt default. The five-year swap, however, increased, indicating some market hesitancy regarding the arrangement.
According to Samy Chaar, chief economist at Lombard Odier, market focus will go back to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s intentions for rates if Congress approves the debt ceiling agreement.
Inflation is quite persistent, according to Chaar.
“We’re back to the story that the Fed needs to exert more effort to reduce inflation, and that certainly will lead to some type of market worry because as you price rate hikes rather than rate cuts, you put pressure on values,”
Markets are trending toward anticipating a 25 basis point rate increase from the Fed next month, followed by a year-end rate freeze.
The Fed’s favored inflation indicator, the personal consumption expenditures price index, came in higher than anticipated on Friday, and two-year U.S. rates rose to their highest levels in more than two months. On Monday, no Treasury trading took place.
Before the region’s inflation figures were released on Wednesday and Thursday, the eurozone government bonds rates declined. Benchmark German 10-year yield was at 2.435, down ten basis points.
The euro was slightly lower at $1.07165, and the U.S. dollar index was down 0.1% at 104.21. During Asian trading, the dollar temporarily surpassed its six-month high against the yen.
After President Tayyip Erdogan won a presidential election on Sunday, extending his increasingly autocratic leadership into a third decade, the Turkish lira hit a fresh record low versus the dollar.
Brent crude futures and U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude had 0.2% and 0.1% price declines, respectively. The price of gold barely changed, staying close to Friday’s two-month lows.
