2023-12-30 02:54:45
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MARKET REVIEWS. The world stock markets are moving in a dispersed order on Friday, in a day that promises to be calm – the last of a tumultuous 2023 for the markets, whose players are still waiting for a change in monetary policy from central banks. ‘next year.
Stock market indices at 8:30 a.m.
European stock indices opened with a timid rise, before regaining some momentum: around 3:40 a.m., Paris glanait 0,38%, Frankfurt grappillait 0.25%, London was a little less dynamic with a gain of 0.09%.
In Asia, the star index Nikkei of the Stock Exchange Tokyo did not shine on Friday (-0.22% to 33,464.17 points). The Japanese Stock Exchange will not reopen until next Thursday, following the traditional New Year break in Japan.
HAS Hong Kongthe Hang Seng was also down slightly on Friday around 3:20 a.m. (-0.13%).
The session promises to be very calm, while yesterday, on Wall Street, the Dow Jones reached a new record, gaining 0.14% to 37,710.10 points. A performance which masks a session without much tone in New York, where the indices were “faced with headwinds from recent data, higher than expected unemployment figures and subdued housing sales”, notes the analyst Stephen Innes (SPI AM).
The context
More generally, the year 2023 was “completely different from what we expected,” explains Ipek Ozkardeskaya, analyst at Swissquote.
The biggest surprise comes from the United States, which Ipek Ozkardeskaya, like many others, “expected to be in recession this year”, and which still posted growth of almost 5% in the third quarter annualized.
So much so that predicting what is in store for 2024 “is the million-euro question,” for the analyst.
No major indicators are expected during the session, apart from inflation in December for certain euro zone countries.
Ten-year US bond rates rose slightly once more on Friday, to 3.84%, following having fallen continuously for several weeks.
In France, the ten-year loan rate is stable between Thursday and Friday, at 2.46% (compared to 2.47% the day before).
Oil up slightly
After regaining ground once morest the euro on Thursday, the dollar stabilized on Friday morning, at one euro once morest 1.11 American dollars ($US), stable at 3:40 a.m.
On the market of oilthe price of barrel of American WTI rose by 0.62% compared to the day before, to US$77.63 at 3:40 a.m., when its equivalent of North Sea Brent also gained 0.48% to US$72.12.
The bitcoin gained once more 0.09%, to US$42,510, following falling the day before.
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