(ANSA) – MILAN, JULY 26 – The main stock exchanges in Asia and the Pacific moved in no particular order after the minutes on the monetary policy of the Bank of Japan and on the eve of the Fed’s decision on US rates, likely to rise by 75 basis points . Futures on Europe and on Wall Street were negative. In the absence of relevant data from the Old Continent, the eyes of investors are focused directly on the US, where indicators on prices and home sales, consumer confidence, the manufacturing index of the Richmond Fed and that of the service sector are forecast. Fed by Dalls.
Advances on weekly crude oil stocks are coming.
The latter appears to be on the rise (WTI + 1.6% at 98.25 dollars a barrel), however, remaining below 100 dollars, surpassed by Brent (+ 1.66% at 106.9 dollars a barrel). Natural gas grew further (+ 2.71% to $ 181.4 per MWh), while gold (-0.4% to $ 1,724 an ounce) and silver (-1.09% a $ 18.55 an ounce) unlike other metals, with iron jumping 4.5% to $ 740.7 a ton. The dollar was weak at 1.022 against the euro and 1.2 against the pound, while the yen rose to 136.61 units per greenback. The stocks of the major exporters did not move much in Tokyo, with Toyota unchanged and Sony (+ 0.21%) and Panasonic (-0.4%) contrasted. The banks Nomura (+ 0.41%) and Mitsubishi Ufj (+ 0.53%) hold. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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