After the new high reached by the Dow Index Jones on Tuesday, European stock markets are expected to open higher on Wednesday, while investors are watching for the next steps leading to the end of the “shutdown” in the United States.

The luxury group LVMH (owner of L'Agefi) announced on Wednesday that its Watches division had acquired a minority stake in the capital of Swiss manufacturer La Joux-Perret, specialist in design and production of watch movements. “At the same time, a trade agreement strategic was concluded to offer new production capacities and of innovation to all of the group's watch companies,” said LVMH in a press release.

Around 7:30am, the CAC 40 futures contract won 0.3%, according to data from the broker IG.

Deputies will resume consideration of the draft on Wednesday of the Social Security financing law, after the adoption of part recipes last Saturday. They will discuss the suspension of the reform of pensions, a condition set by socialists in order not to censor the government. Even though consideration of the bill was not completed on Wednesday, it will be sent to the Senate due to constitutional deadlines.

In the wake of Asian stock exchanges while the The prospect of a way out of the budgetary impasse in the United States supports the Investor morale, futures contracts on European indices are progressing on Wednesday.

Around 7:30, the DAX 40 futures contract at Frankfurt rose 0.5%, while that on the FTSE 100 in London rose by 0.1%, according to data from the broker IG.

The House of Representatives in the United States must To vote on Wednesday on the text adopted on Monday evening in the Senate to exit the Situation of budgetary blockage that paralyses federal administrations since October 1. The Republican majority in the lower house was committed to supporting this compromise text that finances administrations federal governments until January 30 and some ministries for all of the fiscal year.

The New York Stock Exchange closed in scattered order Tuesday, with the Dow Jones reaching a new record high while the values Technological problems have failed.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.2% to 47,927.96 points, to surpass its previous high reached at the end of October. The S&P 500 gained 0.2% to 6,846.61 points. On the other hand, Nasdaq Composite has lost 0.3% to 23,468.30 points.

Within the leading stock index Technological, Nvidia shares (-3%) took profits after the announcement by the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank of the sale in October of its stake in the chip manufacturer for 5.8 billion dollars. The Coreweave computing infrastructure specialist, in which Nvidia owns 7% of Capital, for its part, plunged by 16.3% after warning of a delay in the commissioning a data center from a subcontractor, with for As a result, there is a lag in associated turnover.

The Microsoft groups (+0.5%) and Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet (+0.4%), for their part, announced that they would invest more than 16 billion dollars to develop their intelligence infrastructures artificial (AI) in Europe.

Microsoft reported that over 10 billion dollars in funding would be spent on a data center hub in Sines, in southwest Portugal, starting at the beginning of next year. Microsoft is developing this site with Nvidia, the British start-up of AI infrastructure Nscale Global Holdings and the builder of centers of Start Campus data. For its part, Google announced that it would invest 5.5 billions of euros in AI infrastructure projects in Germany, in particular to build a new data center in Dietzenbach, near Frankfurt.

In Asia, the Nikkei index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange gained 0.4% on Wednesday at the end of trading. The Shanghai Composite Index gave way 0.1%, while the Hang Seng on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange rose 0.6%.

The two-year bond yield dropped 2.9 basis points to 3.57%. Vers At 7:30am, the 10-year US Treasury bond rate lost 3 points base, at 4.09%.

The greenback rose by 0.3% against the currency Japanese, at 154.68 yen. At around 7:30am, the euro was stable at 1.1579 dollars.

This morning, oil prices fell, under the effect of a possible technical correction after three consecutive sessions of progression.

Around 7:30am, the January contract on Brent de Mer The London-listed North lost 23 cents, or 0.4%, to 64.94 dollars per barrel. The December contract on soft light crude (WTI) traded on Nymex lost 22% cents, or 0.4%, to $60.82 per barrel.

According to Fawad Razaqzada, from forex.com , In an email, oil prices have generally stabilized since the start of the week, after falling for two weeks in a row.

For the analyst, “the outlook for Oil prices are quite bearish due to expectations that Crude oil supply will exceed demand growth in the months to come”.