Tuesday, December 20, 2016

The european stock markets end on a note that essentially … – Capital.fr

european stock markets have ended on a note essentially unchanged Monday, the fall of the compartment bank and related to the raw materials, which had counter-balanced the increase in most other sectors, while Wall Street was a moderate increase at the time of the closing of the Europe, driven by its technology sector.

The CAC 40 ended with a decline of 0.22% (-10,50 points) to 4.822,77 points in Paris, but the Footsie british took up 0.08% and the German Dax 0,20%. The increase of the ACC since the beginning of the year is thus reduced to 4.00%, while the Dax goes to 6.4% and the FTSE-100% to 12.4%.

The index EuroStoxx 50 was down 0.09 percent as the FTSEurofirst 300 and the Stoxx europe 600 index lost 0.12 per cent. The decline of these three indices since the beginning of the year ranges from 0.3% to 1.7%.

On the foreign exchange market, the dollar was slightly down in the face of a basket of international currencies (-0,14%), while remaining not far from its peak of 14 years reached last week on expectations of an acceleration of the rise in interest rates in the United States in 2017, and the sense that the measures advocated by the president-elect Donald Trump will boost u.s. growth.

The greenback could evolve with the statements of the president of the federal Reserve Janet Yellen, speaking at 18: 30 GMT, less than a week after the decision of the central bank to raise its key interest rates for the first time in a year.

On the oil market, the price of Brent crude lost 0.4 per cent, returning to the bar 55 dollars, whereas the light crude, american crude oil (WTI) was up 0.2%, reaching $ 52 a barrel.

According to the market players, the price of gold black are nevertheless the support in the belief of investors that the agreement to reduce the production concluded by the main oil countries, which should enter into force in January, will be relatively well respected.

On the bond market, yields, like the dollar, marking a pause in their surge observed since the victory of Donald Trump, with such a price of the loan 10-year Treasury, which is advancing 0.6%.

The index grouping the values in european banking was down 1.68%, under the blow of the decline of 4.47% of title Deutsche Bank after a source told Reuters that the first German bank was close to a settlement agreement with the u.s. department of Justice to settle a dispute related to the sale of asset-backed securities mortgage-backed (RMBS).

The action UniCredit also weighed with a decline from the 4.53%.

The raw materials sector, pulled down by ArcelorMittal (-4,65%), has accused the second-biggest drop of the day with a decline of 1.30%. Since the beginning of the year, his increase is still 58.5% compared to 5.9% for the banking index.

on the side of The increases found in the head of the technology sector (+1.0 per cent), worn by the bond of 3.3% of the share ASML after Bank of America Merrill Lynch rose to buy on the value.

The title Drax jumped 8.4%, signing the largest increase in the Stoxx 600, with Société générale, which is also passed to the purchase on the largest electricity producer in the uk.

(Benoit Van Overstraeten for the French service, edited by Véronique Tison)

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