MILANO – Futures little moved on Europe and on Wall Street, where the S & P500 is back from the 70th record of the year.
Protagonist in Asia, in particular on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, was the debut of SenseTime, the Chinese artificial intelligence company that had ended up in the tug-of-war between Beijing and Washington, when the US had established the blacklist of Chinese companies operating in the sector with the result of preventing the Americans from investing in them and making them postpone ‘Hypo. Then the Chinese public investment troops left and raised their commitment to the operation and guaranteed its success: SenseTime raised 740 million dollars in Hong Kong, which will largely invest in a center for supercomputers in Hong Kong. Shanghai, and on its debut on the stock exchange, stocks rose by more than 20%.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange closed the last session of 2021 negatively: the Nikkei index fell by 0.4% to 28,791.71 points compared to the day before, but remaining at its highest since 1989. Compared to the last session of 2020, the gain was 4.9%. The Topix index lost 0.33% to 1,992.33 points. Trading was contained ahead of the holiday and fears over the Omicron variant held back investors. In China, on the other hand, optimism prevails over the expected support measures for growth, such as the extension of some tax incentives on personal income. The Shanghai Composite is up 0.83%, while the index Shenzhen Composite salt by 1.1%. However, the real estate sector remains under close observation, with some bond maturities to be repaid, for example for Kaisa.
Last night, Wall Street managed to bring the S & P500 to the 70th record of the year: the indices are returning from days – marked by the low trading volume, typical of the Christmas period – mainly positive, with investors looking optimistically at the new year, during which they are waiting for the economic recovery to continue and for listed companies to continue to post solid quarterly results. Investors are increasingly convinced that the omicron variant of the coronavirus will not lead to tougher restrictions and therefore will not affect the recovery. The Dow gained 0.25%, the S & P500 0.14% and the Nasdaq lost 0.1%.
Among commodities, an upward trend for the prices of Petroleum at the start of the day: the reference WTI crude oil changes hands at 76.68 dollars (76.56 last night in New York). Brent also rose, gaining 0.23% to 79.39 dollars.
Start in flexion for theeuro which still remains above $ 1.13. The European currency is trading at 1.1316 dollars, against 1.1353 yesterday at the close. Euro / yen at 130.31 yen. Dollar / yen at 115.15. The Bitcoin remains in a weak phase and returns to the area of 47 thousand dollars.
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