As European scholarships operate at a slight increase this Friday morning (9), supported in part by the mining sector, after Rio Tinto announced that it had resumed negotiations for the possible purchase of Glencore.
At around 6:30 am (Brasília time), the pan-European Stoxx 600 index advanced 0.39%, to 606.19 points. Only the mining sub-index gained 1.1%.
In London, Anglo-Swiss Glencore jumped almost 9% at the time above after Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto revealed that it is once again negotiating a possible merger that would give rise to the largest mining company in the world. Also in the English market, Rio Tinto fell 2%, after closing business in Sydney with a drop of 6.27%.
The defense and aerospace sector sub-index showed a slight increase, of 0.10%, but was heading towards its sixth positive session, days after the president, to US$ 1.5 trillion, and in the face of renewed pressure from Washington to
Investors in Europe are also awaiting the US employment report, the so-called payrollreferring to December. The document is fundamental to the trajectory of American basic interest rates.
From the agenda of European indicators, the highlight is industrial production in Germany, which showed an unexpected increase of 0.8% in November. Soon, an update on retail sales in the euro zone is expected.
At 6:43 am (Brasília time), the London Stock Exchange rose 0.36%, the Paris Stock Exchange increased 0.51% and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange gained 0.07%. Those in Milan and Lisbon, in turn, had respective increases of 0.05% and 0.04%. In the opposite direction, Madrid fell 0.03%.
