AEX recovers from opening loss | Financial

At five to ten, the AEX is 0.1% lower at 757.6 points, after Monday’s slot record to have tightened up. The AMX rose 0.4% to 1061.8 points.

Most other European stock markets are higher. Britain’s FTSE 100 and France’s CAC 40 are up 0.3% and 0.7% respectively. The German DAX is down 0.1%.

In the Asian region, major equity markets showed mostly losses this morning as Chinese state media lashed out at the gamingindustrie. This could be a prelude to interventions by the authorities, which have already been tough on other sectors in recent weeks. Japan’s Nikkei closed 0.5% lower.

On Monday, after a hopeful start, the US stock markets ended mostly slightly lower. Index futures do point to some recovery when they open at 3.30am.

At the Dutch stock exchange funds, Prosus with a 5% loss at the bottom. Tencent, a major player in the gaming sector in which the tech investor has a large stake, was down 7% this morning.

Chipmachinemaker ASML fell 1.4%, possibly in response to the disappointing quarterly report from German chipmaker Infineon.

DSM loses 0.4%, despite being the supplier to the pharmaceutical and food sector annual forecast increased at the time of the publication of its half-year figures. But ING points out that analysts were already counting on this and that the food division disappointed somewhat in the first half. Degroof Petercam even sees reason to lower the holding advice, but mainly because the investment bank sees little upside potential after the strong price increase in recent months.

Dataleverancier Relx leads with a gain of 1.2%.

Heineken climbs 1%, after target price increases by some foreign banks. Investors reacted positively to his data release on Monday. Oil and gas company Shell adds 0.8%.

Fertilizer producer is among the medium-sized funds OCI with a minus of 2.3% at the bottom.

SBM Offshore climbs 2.5%, after signing a letter of intent with Brazilian oil company Petrobras to operate a production and storage vessel for 22.5 years.

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