Shares are expected to open lower due to concerns about the economy and Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. The Eurostoxx 50 opens at 3,706.62 points (-0.04%), the CAC 40 at 6,436.86 points (-0.18%), the DAX 40 at 13,479.63 points (-0,03%), the FTSE 100 at 7,413.42 points (-0.13%), the DJIA at 32,798.40 points (-0.14%), the Nasdaq at 12,368.98 points (-0.18%), the S&P 500 at 4,118.63 points (-0.28%) and the Nikkei 225 at 27,610.41 points (-1.37%).

On the exchange side, the change from the close in New York indicates EUR/USD at 1.0274 (+0.11%), EUR/JPY at 134.35 (-0.53%), and USD/JPY at 130.77 (-0.64%).

Bouygues and Bic published their first-half results on Tuesday. Alstom has completed the sale of its Coradia Polyvalent platform, its production site in Reichshoffen in France and its TALENT3 platform, currently developed in Hennigsdorf in Germany, to the Spanish group CAF.

European stock markets are expected to open lower on Tuesday, continuing the previous day's downturn, due to the bleak economic outlook. Investors are also concerned by the visit to Asia of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, which has rekindled Sino-American diplomatic tensions. At 7:35am, the CAC 40 futures contract was down 38 points, or 0.6%, according to data from the IG Markets broker. The DAX 40 contract fell 98 points, or 0.7%, and the FTSE 100 contract lost 54 points, or 0.7%.

Against this background, Asian stock markets fell sharply on Tuesday morning. At the end of the session, the Nikkei index dropped 1.3% in Tokyo. The Shanghai Composite Index fell by 2.4%, the Hang Seng on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange lost 2.6% and in Taiwan, the Taiex index fell by 1.7%. For its part, the Sydney Stock Exchange was trading close to balance after the Australian Central Bank, or RBA, raised its key rate for the fourth month in a row. As in June and July, the RBA opted for an increase of 50 basis points, bringing its key rate to 1.85%.

On Monday, Wall Street closed slightly lower after the release of several economic indicators fueling fears of a worsening economic situation. The Dow Jones Index (DJIA) fell 0.1% and the expanded S&P 500 index lost 0.3%. In the green early in trading, the Nasdaq Composite fell by 0.3%.

U.S. Treasury bond yields fell on Tuesday morning, as traders continued to assess the possibility that recession fears could cause the Federal Reserve to slow the pace of monetary policy tightening. According to CME Group's FedWatch tool, federal funds futures include a 71% probability Tuesday morning that the US central bank will raise rates by 50 basis points in September to bring them to a range of 2.75% to 3%.

The euro advanced against the greenback on Tuesday, trading at $1,0274 at 7:35am. However, Goldman Sachs has lowered its forecasts for the euro/dollar pair. The bank now expects the euro to fall below parity in the next three months and to change little during the rest of the year.

Oil futures fell on Tuesday and moved below $100 per barrel, hampered by recession fears after manufacturing growth was announced in the United States and China in July. The oil market is particularly disturbed by the weakness of economic data released in China, which comes at a time when oil flows from the OPEC countries, a group that brings together the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and ten allied countries led by Russia, seem to be increasing, according to CBA bank. Around 7:20 a.m., the October North Sea Brent contract sold 75 cents to $99.28 per barrel, while the September contract for light sweet crude (WTI) traded on Nymex fell by 54 cents to $93.35 per barrel.