Concerns that the Chinese giant real estate development company Evergrande, whose known debt exceeds $ 300 billion, paid more than $ 100 million in bond coupons on Thursday, increased the risk perception and brought sales pressure on a global basis.
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) stated in its statement on the subject that it is estimated that China will not bail out the company unless it threatens the financial stability to a vital point.
On the other hand, the meeting of the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and the developments regarding the budget continue to remain in the focus of investors. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, which will last two days for the Fed's monetary policy decisions to be announced tomorrow, will begin today.
It is seen that the reaction purchases following the sharp fall in the New York stock market yesterday are also effective in the futures index contracts today. Analysts reported that JP Morgan's strategists gave buying advice with the expectation that the economic recovery might accelerate, triggering purchases towards the end of the session yesterday and was decisive in partially compensating the losses in the equity markets.
Yesterday, the S&P 500 index lost 1.70 percent, the Dow Jones index fell 1.78 percent and the Nasdaq index lost 2.19 percent. The index contracts started with a new day-to-day weight in futures and increased by 0.5 percent on average in the following minutes.
Despite the statements of the European Central Bank (ECB) officials that the supportive position of the monetary policy will continue, European stock markets also followed a selling trend with the decreasing global risk appetite.
ECB officials stated that they believe that inflation will fall to 2 percent in a period of time until 2023, and that asset prices are currently very volatile, especially in commodities.
In the region, the volatility in commodity prices and the effect of this situation on electricity prices remain on the agenda.
Yesterday, the DAX index in Germany decreased by 2.31 percent, the FTSE 100 index in the UK by 0.86 percent, the CAC 40 index in France by 1.74 percent and the MIB 30 index in Italy by 2.57 percent, while the index in futures transactions lost value. contracts started the new day with increases between 0.1% and 0.5%.
Euro/dollar parity, on the other hand, is trading at 1.1736 with an increase of 0.1 percent compared to the previous close.
In Asia, there are no transactions in the Chinese and South Korean markets due to the public holiday. While the declines in Japanese stock markets, which were closed yesterday, approached 2 percent, the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong slowed its decline with the decrease of the effect of yesterday's strong sales. The Hang Seng index is at 24,040, down 0.3 percent in the current minutes.
While the news flow regarding Evergrande continues to be the focus of the agenda in Asia, it remains unclear what steps the Chinese state will take towards the company.
While there is still a calm data agenda ahead of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey meeting to be held on Thursday, the BIST 100 index in Borsa Istanbul depreciated in parallel with the global stock markets yesterday at 1,391.91 points, 1.94 percent below the previous close. completed.
Dollar/TL, on the other hand, is trading at 8.6380 at the opening of the interbank market today, after rising by 0.3 percent to 8.6725 yesterday.
Analysts stated that the current account balance, construction permits and housing starts statistics will be followed in the USA today, and noted that technically, the 1.390 level in the BIST 100 index stands out as support, and the 1.405 and 1.413 levels stand out as resistance.
The data to be followed in the markets today are as follows:
15.30 US, 2nd quarter current balance
15.30 US, August building permits
15.30 US, August housing starts
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