Today’s stock markets, April 15th. Markets little moved after the attack on Israel, oil declines. Public debt is rising again

Asia closes weak, Tokyo loses 0.7%

Weak stock markets in Asia due to heightened international tensions, with Iran’s drone attack on Israel last Saturday. Tokyo lost 0.74%, Taiwan 1.38%, Seoul 0.42% and Sydney 0.46%. Hong Kong (-0.71%), Mumbai (-0.69%), Singapore (-1.03%) and Shanghai (+0.6%) are still open, the latter favored by the hypothesis of government support of Beijing to the markets. In the background there is the fear of a further postponement of the US rate cut after the inflation data. Futures on Europe, with the exception of London, and on US stock markets are positive in the absence of particularly significant data. Crude oil (WTI -0.6% to 85.15 dollars per barrel) and natural gas (-1.08% to 40.40 euros per MWh) fell. Gold slipped (-1.63% to 2,358 dollars an ounce), while steel showed little change (-0.06% to 3,616 dollars a ton. The dollar fell to 0.93 euros and 0.8 pounds , the spread between German 10-year BTPs and Bunds rises to 139 points, with the Italian yield rising by 1.4 points to 3.76% and the German one by 2.1 points to 2.37%. semiconductor producers Socionext (-3.88%), Lasertest (-2.59%) and Advantest (-1.31%). Compared to automotive manufacturers Mazda (+0.19%) and Honda (-1%), unchanged Toyota.