European stock markets should hesitate before the US inflation figures. The Eurostoxx 50 at 3,646.51 points (+2.14%), the CAC 40 at 6,333.59 points (+1.95%), the DAX 40 at 13,402.27 points (+2.40%), the FTSE 100 at 7,473.03 points (+1.66%), the SMI at 10,990.75 points (+0.83%), the AEX at 696.87 points (+1.66%), the SMI at 10,990.75 points (+0.83%), the AEX at 696.87 points (+1.66%) 59%), the BEL 20 at 3,722.45 points (+1.61%), the IBEX 35 at 8,194.30 points (+2.01%), the DJIA at 32,381.34 points (+0.71%), the Nasdaq at 12,266.41 points (+1.27%), the S&P 500 at 4,110.41 points (+1.06%) and the Nikkei 225 at 28,58% 2.14 points (+0, 14%).

As for exchange rates, the change from the close in New York indicates that EUR/USD opens at 1.0125 (+0.03%), EUR/JPY at 144.35 (-0.15%), and USD/JPY at 142.59 (-0.18%).

Industrial gas supplier Air Liquide announced on Monday evening the sale of its Industrial Marchand business in Saudi Arabia to Abdullah Hashim Industrial Gases & Equipment, an Air Products joint venture. This transaction includes Air Liquide's participation in Air Liquide Khafra Industrial Gases (ALKIG), the French group said in a press release.

European equity markets are expected to change little at the start of trading on Tuesday, while investors await inflation figures in the United States, which will be closely scrutinized a week before the next meeting of the Federal Reserve's (Fed) Monetary Policy Committee. In Germany, the largest economy in the eurozone, investors will be watching for the final consumer price index for August, as well as the ZEW index of the economic outlook of financial analysts and institutional investors. At 7:45am, the CAC 40 futures contract was down 7.2 points, or 0.1%, according to data from the IG Markets broker. The DAX contract lost 13 points, or 0.1%, and the FTSE 100 contract lost 17 points, or 0.2%.

Economists polled by the Wall Street Journal expect consumer prices in the United States to rise 8% year over year in August, after rising 8.5% in July. Over a month, prices are expected to have fallen by 0.1%, a sign that the Fed's restrictive monetary policy is starting to take effect. Inflation in the United States seems to have begun to recede slightly after peaking in June at 9.1% over a year, its highest level since November 1981, thanks also to the fall in oil prices from the peaks reached just after the start of the war in Ukraine.

Before this release, Wall Street finished higher on Monday, marking a fourth straight session of gain. The Dow Jones Index (DJIA) gained 0.7%, the expanded S&P 500 index gained 1.1%, and the Nasdaq Composite, rich in technology stocks, gained 1.3%. In the wake of American stock exchanges, Asian markets rose on Tuesday. At the end of the session, the Nikkei index was up 0.2% in Tokyo, the Hang Seng was up 0.4% in Hong Kong and the Shanghai Composite was up 0.3%.

U.S. Treasury yields fell on Tuesday after gaining ground on Monday. The rate on two-year securities, which are particularly sensitive to changes in the Fed's monetary policy, neared their highest level in nearly 15 years. The probability of a 75 basis point hike in Federal Reserve rates from 3% to 3.25% at the end of the September 20-21 meeting is now 88%, according to CME Group's FedWatch tool. US key rates are expected in a range between 3.75% and 4% in December.

The dollar continued to fall on Tuesday morning, especially against the euro, as risk appetite remained solid ahead of the US inflation figures. While noting that the euro has recently benefited from the fall in natural gas prices in Europe, as Ukraine has regained a large part of its territory, RBC Capital Markets indicates that long-term gas contracts “involve a structural increase in prices that will remain a brake on European growth and, in our opinion, for the euro.”

Oil futures changed little on Tuesday morning, after rising for the third straight session on Monday. The price of sweet light crude (WTI) listed on Nymex even posted its largest increase of the month against a background of the weakening of the dollar, difficulties surrounding the Iranian nuclear negotiations and questions from investors about the evolution of the supply. At 7:35am, the November North Sea Brent contract fell 3 cents to $93.97 per barrel, while the October WTI contract gained 11 cents to $87.95 per barrel.