(CercleFinance.com) – The European stock markets start the week in a certain sluggishness (+0.1% in London and Frankfurt, stability in Paris), the closure of Wall Street on Monday due to Martin Luther King’s Day encouraging operators to wait-and-see.
No macroeconomic data is scheduled for today, but the following will see the ZEW index in Germany, inflation in the euro zone and the United Kingdom, or even industrial production and retail sales in the United States. United.
Above all, the week will see the earnings season of the major American groups ramp up, with, for example, those of the banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, or even the giant of everyday consumer products Procter & Gamble.
Operators will also be able to pay attention, in the coming days, to the World Economic Forum in Davos, a meeting in which several central bankers will participate.
‘The managing director of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, the president of the ECB, Christine Lagarde, and no less than nine members of the board of the Fed are among the main speakers’, underlines one thus at Kiplink.
For the time being, in the news of stocks, AstraZeneca (stable in London) indicated that it had finalized the acquisition of Neogene, a biotechnology company specializing in the development of therapies based on T cells.
Siemens (stable in Frankfurt) announced the acquisition of British consulting firm Vendigital, part of its professional services unit Siemens Advanta, a transaction completed on December 22.
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