🌍 Macro and Geopolitics
🛢️ Oil is the key driver. Brent is down 1.2% at about $103 (WTI near $90.5) after Trump spoke of “productive discussions” with Iran, which eased inflation fears.
🏦 Rate worries remain. Markets price roughly 80% odds of a Fed hike in December.
🗽 Wall Street (Thursday close)
📉 S&P 500 –0.47% to 7,765 and Nasdaq –1.25% to 27,193, both down for a second day, after a report that OpenAI revenue is below estimates.
📈 Dow +0.10% to 51,232.
🔄 US futures are rebounding: S&P 500 +0.3%, Nasdaq 100 +0.5%.
🌏 Asian Markets
🇯🇵 Nikkei 225: flat near 69,016 after a two-day slide.
🇭🇰 Hang Seng: +1.2% to about 24,062, rebounding on stronger US futures and lower oil.
🇨🇳 Shanghai Composite: –0.7% to 3,786, while Shenzhen Component is down 2.1% on AI-spending jitters.
🇦🇺 ASX 200: +0.6%
🇮🇳 Nifty 50: +1.2%
🇰🇷 South Korea is closed for Hangul Day.
💱 Forex & Commodities
💶 EUR/USD: 1.1231 (+0.17%)
💷 GBP/USD: 1.3244 (+0.10%)
🇯🇵 USD/JPY: 158.08 (+0.13%)
🥇 Gold: $4,188 (+1.3%), bouncing back after a weekly losing streak
🥈 Silver: $60.30 (+1.9%)
₿ Bitcoin: $82,378 (–0.5%)
Ξ Ethereum: $2,492 (–2.7%)
🗓️ Today’s Calendar (Athens time)
🇨🇦 15:30 – Canada jobs report (unemployment forecast 6.5%)
🇺🇸 17:00 – University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment (forecast 47.5, previous 48.1) and inflation expectations
🎤 Fed’s Collins and ECB’s Schnabel speak
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