As investors unpack a salvo of quarterly results publications, while remaining attentive to geopolitical tensions, European stock markets should open up Wednesday.

Crédit Agricole SA published a net result on Wednesday by 7.07 billion euros for 2025, down slightly from the record history of 2024. Annual revenues, at 28.08 billion euros, have grew by 3.3% over one year and is the highest ever reached by the green bank. Analysts expected net income of 6.7 billion of euros and a net banking income of 27.8 billion euros, according to FactSet.

Tire manufacturer Michelin announced the acquisition of the American company Flexitallic, specialized in gaskets for high performance for sectors such as energy and the chemical industry. This acquisition will be entirely financed by available cash, for an amount that has not been disclosed.

The reinsurer Scor announced growth on Wednesday of its reinsurance premiums when contracts are renewed annually carried out on January 1. Reinsurance premiums increased by 4.7% over a year, at 4.49 billion euros.

Tuesday evening, the software publisher Dassault Systèmes announced that it had established a “long-term strategic partnership” with Nvidia to develop a digital twin platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

At around 7:40am, the CAC 40 futures contract gained 0.4%, according to data from IG broker.

This morning, index futures Europeans rose despite the fall on Wall Street on Tuesday, while investors expect a series of economic indicators from two sides of the Atlantic.
According to data from the broker IG, the DAX 40 futures contract in Frankfurt rose by 0.2%, while the FTSE 100 in London rose by 0.1%, to 7:40am.

The New York Stock Exchange closed lower on Tuesday, plagued by the poor performance of the technological compartment. The Dow Index Jones lost 0.3% to 49,240.99 points, and the S&P 500 lost 0.8% to 49,240.99 points. 6,917,81 points. The Nasdaq Composite, rich in technological values, is over down 1.4% to 23,255.19 points.

Despite this unfavourable environment, Walmart (+2.9%) crossed 1,000 billion capitalization for the first time stock exchange. Palantir (+6.8%) was also an exception the day after the presentation of its results, while PayPal (-20%) was severely sanctioned after disembarking its managing director and issuing a warning on its results.
Software publishers, especially in the legal fields and data, fell due to concerns about the news Anthropic artificial intelligence features.
Daniel Skelly, head of the research and strategy team for Morgan Stanley wealth management reported that “the movement of Tuesday's sell-off on tech stocks was brutal, but it's not about Just the last episode of a trend that was evident at the end of the year latest and which has recently accelerated.”

It should be noted that a rotation also takes place at within the technology sector itself, with investors abandoning software due to ongoing fears of AI-related disruptions, for turn to other promising values, such as memories, he emphasizes.

On the political side, the American president, Donald On Tuesday evening, Trump signed a law ending the partial closure of federal administrations, which had lasted for four days. “We have succeeded in passing a set of responsible measures in terms of budgetary,” he said in the Oval Office, surrounded by republican parliamentarians.
This financing law was voted on Tuesday by the House of representatives, after it was passed by the Senate last week.
In Asia, the Nikkei index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange lost 0.8% on Wednesday at the end of session. The Shanghai Composite Index grew by 0.6%, while the Hang Seng on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange rose 0.3%.

The two-year bond yield rose by 1 basis point to 3.59%. Vers 7:40 a.m., the 10-year US Treasury bond rate rose 1.5 points base, at 4.28%.

The greenback gained 0.4% against the currency Japanese, at 156.34 yen. Around 7:40 a.m., the euro rose by 0.1%, to 1,1833 dollars.

In a context of tensions between the United States and In Iran, oil prices are rising this morning. The United States shot down a Iranian drone that was heading for the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. According to Vivek Dhar, from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, this has rekindled fears of a new conflict between the United States and Iran, which could lead to oil supply disruptions in the Middle East.

While the United States and Iran must start of the talks on Friday, Donald Trump's threat that “of bad things would happen” if no agreement was reached on the Iranian nuclear program justifies a risk premium, adds the analyst.

The March contract on soft light crude (WTI) listed At Nymex, it added 48 cents, or 0.8%, to $63.69 per barrel. Around 7:40, the April North Sea Brent contract listed in London won 43 cents, or 0.6%, to 67.75 dollars per barrel.