European equity markets are expected to rise this Wednesday. The Euro Stoxx 50 opens at 3,575.36 points (-0.80%), the CAC 40 at 6.211.45 points (-0.42%), the DAX 40 at 13,096.93 points (-0.86%), the FTSE 100 at 7,306.28 points (0.00%), the SMI at 11,102.31 points (-0.24%), Alex at 706.26 points (-0.11%), BEL 20 at 3,741.26 points (-0.10%), LibEx 35 at 8,069.60 points (-0.20%), The DJIA at 31,761.54 points (-0.71%), the Nasdaq at 11,562.57 points (-1.87%), the S&P 500 3,921.05 points (-1.15%), and the Nikkei 225 27.740.45 points +0.31%.
The change compared to the close in New York shows their/USD at 1.0150 (0.31%), EUR/JPY at 139.05 (+0.37%), and USD/JPY at 137.01 (+0.05%).

In France, a reaction from the luxury sector has been announced, in response to the results of the giant LVMH.
Among the measures adopted last night by MEPs were the funding necessary to nationalize EDF to the tune of 9.7 billion euros.
The main European equity markets are expected to rise. At 7:35am, the CAC 40 futures contract gained 7.5 points, or 0.1%, according to data from the broker IG Markets. The DAX 40 contract rose 66 points, or 0.5%, and the FTSE 100 contract increased 28 points, or 0.4%.
Faced with inflation at the highest level in 40 years in the United States, American central bankers are expected to raise borrowing costs for their fourth consecutive meeting, following increases announced in March, May, and June.
In Asia, the main stock exchanges were trading in a scattered order on Wednesday. At the end of the session, the Nikkei index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose 0.3%, but the Hang Seng dropped 1.5% in Hong Kong and the Shanghai Composite fell by 0.2%.
US Treasury bond yields are close to balance this morning and the reversal of the yield curve remains very strong before the Fed's monetary policy decision is announced.
The euro is rising against the dollar this morning, but the Fed's message about the extent, pace, and duration of the monetary tightening that could follow Wednesday's decision is a challenge for risky assets that investors don't seem to want to give up before these announcements, ING says.
After falling on Tuesday due to fears of recession, oil prices changed little on Wednesday morning.
In addition, data released on Tuesday by the American Petroleum Institute (API) showed a drop of 4 million barrels in crude stocks in the United States last week, and a 1.1 million barrel drop in gasoline stocks.
At 7:25am, the September contract for North Sea Brent crashed 3 cents at $104.43 a barrel, and the contract of the same maturity for light sweet crude (WTI) listed on Nymex rose by 25 cents to 95.21 dollars a barrel.