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European stock markets open higher, attentive to inflation data in the US.

The European stock markets have opened higher, driven by the positive closing yesterday of Wall Street and the Asian stock markets, attentive to the most anticipated data this week, inflation in the US, for the month of December and which according to the consensus of analysts could rebound slightly.

At the opening, the stock market that rose the most was that of Paris, 0.59%, followed by Milan, with 0.45%, London and Frankfurt, both with 0.43%, and Madrid, with 0. 29%

For its part, the Euro Stoxx50, an index in which the largest capitalization European companies are listed, also rose 0.53%.

Among the Asian stock markets, the main index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Nikkei rose 1.77% today, placing itself above the psychological barrier of 35,000 points, a mark that it had not surpassed for almost 34 years, the reference of the Shanghai Stock Exchange gained 0.31%, the Shenzhen stock market, 1.47%, while the Seoul Stock Exchange fell 0.07%.

Wall Street closed yesterday in green and its main indicator, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, rose 0.45%, with investors waiting to know tomorrow the United States Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month of December .

In the debt market, the interest rate on the German bond, considered the safest, falls and stands at 2.187%, while the Spanish bond also falls to 3.136%.

Regarding raw materials, gold climbs 0.46% and the price per ounce stands at $2,037.

For its part, oil rises, in the case of Brent, the reference in Europe, by 0.66% to 77.31 dollars a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI), also advances by 0.63 % to 71.82 dollars a barrel, before the official opening of the market.

Yesterday, cryptocurrency investors were waiting for the approval of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) linked to bitcoin.

Bitcoin has appreciated recently on expectations about this news, but suffered volatility yesterday when the SEC’s account on Dollars.

Today, the best-known cryptocurrency on the market rises and stands at $46,160.

As for the euro, it is practically stable with a slight advance of 0.05% compared to the “greenback” and is exchanged at 1.097 dollars.

Source: Elcomercio

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