Stock markets, Asia positive after Wall Street. In Japan, disappointing exports drag Tokyo (-0.6%). Europe is waiting carefully for the day of the ECB

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Asian stock markets continue in positive territory after US shares gained yesterday, thanks to better-than-expected earnings from Morgan Stanley, United Airlines and other major American companies. Yesterdaythe S&P 500 rose 0.5% and the Dow Jones industrial average gained 0.8% to set a record. The Nasdaq composite rose 0.3%.

me Chinese markets benefit, after officials in Beijing announced that the government is expanding funding for real estate projects.

A Tokyothe index 225closing the session with scoring -0.69% to 38,911.19, after the government reported that the Japan’s exports fell 1.7% compared to the previous year in September, expanding the country’s trade deficit.

I am in the future sui European markets expect the session to open cautiously, waiting for the BC. Today the European Central Bank will announce interest rates and barring unforeseen circumstances, a new cut is expected, insisting that inflation in the euro zone is now increasingly under control.

Lagarde (ECB): “Global challenges can strengthen the EU”

Yesterday evening, the speech at the official dinner held by the central bank of Slovenia during the Governing Council that brings together the governors in Ljubljana, the president of the ECB. Christine Lagarde he explained that Europe can transform global geopolitical challenges into opportunities, starting from the break that replaces openness in foreign trade.