MILANO – Investors are taking advantage of the recent falls in share prices, triggered by the Omicron variant, to buy at a little discount. This simple speculative reason also explains the ups and downs seen in these stock market sessions, after last week’s Black Friday. Today, trade is announced to be cautiously rising pending the US data on the labor market, which could strengthen the conviction of a shift by the Federal Reserve towards more “hawkish” tones and therefore towards an acceleration of the closing of the taps with which it has flooded the markets with liquidity.
Major European exchanges are heading towards a higher open this morning, with futures making 0.55% gains for both the Frankfurt Dax and London’s Ftse 100, after the Dow Jones closed higher yesterday. 1.8%. Futures on Wall Street are also still slightly up. There volatility, is the reading of Bloomberg observers, will take on a leading role now that the thrust of central banks will have to reformulate and that the strength of the economic recovery is destined to lose the overwhelming strength it has had in the last year, not to mention the health variable that is not yet defined.
This morning the Asian markets moved positively. There Tokyo Stock Exchange it stretched on the end of trading and climbed 1% with the Nikkei at 28,029.57, adding 276 points. Shanghai now earns 0.94%, while Shenzen it is on + 0.65%. Alone in turn it rises by 0.85%. Out of place Hong Kong where the Hang Seng index lost 0.17%. The list of the island is affected by the choices of Didi, Uber’s Chinese rival, which after a few months prepares its delisting from Wall Street and is going to go public in Hong Kong. In a statement, the company said the board of directors authorized the initiation of delisting procedures from the New York Stock Exchange. The decision follows Beijing’s pressure on the giant, contrary to its listing on Wall Street from the beginning.
Among the commodities, the prices of the Petroleum they are still on the rise after OPEC + in its meeting yesterday decided to maintain the already established 400,000 barrels per day increase in supply. Producing countries could still meet before the next monthly meeting on January 4, should the Omicron variant hit demand for crude oil. The Wti at Nymex now marks a growth of 2% to 67.86 dollars a barrel, after the + 1.4% recorded on Thursday, while the Brent is at 71.01 dollars with a + 1.9%, after +1 , 2% yesterday.
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