Global Stock Rally Pauses in Europe
24 Julio 2019 - 4:34AM
Noticias Dow Jones
By Caitlin Ostroff
-- Treasury yields edge down
-- Sterling holds steady against the dollar
-- Caterpillar and Boeing to report earnings
European stocks paused after Asian indexes mostly gained, amid
an earnings season in the U.S. that has so far mostly beaten
expectations.
The Stoxx Europe 600 edged down 0.1% in morning trade. In Asia,
the Shanghai Composite was up 0.8% and Japan's Nikkei gained
0.4%.
Deutsche Bank fell 3.8% on Wednesday after it reported a loss of
$3.51 billion due to restructuring costs.
Shares of U.K. chemicals company Croda International dropped
3.4% after it reported its earnings fell in the first half and said
its personal care business had been impacted by the U.S.-China
trade dispute.
The German 10-year bund yield slid to a new all-time low of
minus 0.429%, according to Tradeweb, as investors grew nervous
about the economic outlook for the eurozone. Bond yields and prices
move in opposite directions.
The poor performance in the eurozone's two largest economies,
France and Germany, added to expectations for a fresh stimulus
drive from the European Central Bank on Thursday, said Claus
Vistesen, chief European economist for Pantheon Macroeconomics.
The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield also slipped on Wednesday, to
2.058%, from 2.074% on Tuesday.
On the earnings front, investors were waiting for a slew of
major U.S. corporate reports from Facebook Inc., AT&T Inc. and
Tesla Inc. later Wednesday. Boeing Co., Ford Motor Co. and Thermo
Fischer Scientific Inc., a biotech firm, are also set to release
their results.
In the U.S., shares in big tech companies fell in after-hours
trade Tuesday after the Justice Department announced it was opening
a broad antitrust review into whether dominant firms have
unlawfully stifled competition. Facebook Inc. fell 1.5%,
Google-parent Alphabet Inc. fell 0.9%, Amazon.com Inc. fell 1% and
Apple Inc. fell 0.4%.
The British pound was mostly unchanged Wednesday, a day after
Boris Johnson emerged as the victor to become the next U.K. prime
minister. Though the market had expected Mr. Johnson's win,
investors may react to his cabinet appointments, said John Wraith,
head of U.K. rates strategy for UBS.
Anna Isaac and Lauren Almeida contributed to this article.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 24, 2019 05:19 ET (09:19 GMT)
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