The macro day opens with the fourth quarter trade balance and GDP in the United Kingdom. This will be followed by the weekly requests for subsidies in the United States, where the February preliminary data on household confidence will also be published
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A positive start is looming for European equity markets, on a day when ears will likely still be pricked up by central bankers’ statements and corporate balance sheet data. About an hour after the start, the futures relating to the Euro Stoxx 50 mark a +0.4%.
In Tokyo closure little changed (-0.08%)
The Tokyo Stock Exchange ends the session slightly down, following the contraction of Wall Street and the Nasdaq’s technological listing, with investors anticipating new monetary tightening by the US Federal Reserve, following the recent comments by numerous US central bank officials .
The reference list NIKKEI 225 marks a slightly negative change of 0.08% to 27,584.35.
On the currency front, the yen is stable against the dollar, at 131.20 and 140.90 against the euro.
Yesterday’s day
Stock markets moved in a mixed direction on Wednesday. In Europe, the lists ended up moderately, with the FTSE MIB of Piazza Affari at +0.16% and Frankfurt at +0.6%, while Paris lost 0.2%. Wall Street, on the other hand, ended up losing ground, with the S&P 500 index at -1.1% and the Nasdaq at -1.7% and a slowdown that also forced the Old Continent to end below the day’s highs. In any case, the issue of rates remains the point around which investors’ decisions revolve. Also because there are numerous (and often conflicting) interventions by the various central bankers who provide indications in this “pause” between the Fed and ECB meetings in early February and mid-March.
The macro data expected today
The macro day opens with the fourth quarter trade balance and GDP in the United Kingdom. This will be followed by the weekly requests for subsidies in the United States, where the February preliminary data on household confidence calculated by the University of Michigan will also be published. Expected the speech of Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, and the decision on rates in Sweden. The extraordinary European Council is held in Brussels, with the participation of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
On the financial front, the protagonists in Piazza Affari will be above all Enel e Mediobanca. They will publish the accounts today, among other listed companies, too General Bank, Banca Ifis, Bank Profile, Bank DesioBFF Bank, The only buzzer, Frank, Illimity Bank e Unipol.
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