Financial markets
Asia stock markets fall, while shelter assets, such as gold and Japanese yen, go up, at a time when investors are still concerned about the possible entry of the United States into the air war between Israel and Iran, which lasts a week.
Oil prices fall, and investors doubt new positions after President Donald Trump gave contradictory signals about the possible participation of the United States in the conflict between Israel and Iran, while the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates unchanged.
Macroeconomic data
Today, on a day without Wall Street, we will have:
– Bank of England types decision
– Auction of Spanish bonds to 5, 8 and 10 years
– Production of the construction sector in the Eurozone
Companies
Electric Red guilt the blackout electric and questions that it had a calculation error (Reuters)
The Government will ignore the BBVA order to save the OPA to Sabadell and put conditions (the confidential); Natwest rules out presenting an offer per TSB (Financial Times); Barclays would be among banks interested in buying TSB from Sabadell (Bloomberg News)
Telefónica launches a bond issuance of 750 million euros (Reuters)
CaixaBank places bonds for 1.5 billion euros (reuters)
La Caixa Foundation will invest 4,000 million to 2030 (five days, expansion)
Urbaser: Avalanche of orders in its macroemission of 2.3 billion (expansion)
Economy and politics
Iran and Israel exchanged new air attacks while President Donald Trump kept the world in suspense about whether the United States would join the Israeli bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities (Reuters)
The Foreign Ministers of Germany, France and the United Kingdom plan
The Federal Reserve maintained interest rates without changes on Wednesday and monetary managers indicated that indebted costs would fall this year, but its president, Jerome Powell, warned that not much importance should be given to forecasts and that «significant» inflation awaits tariffs (Reuters)
The Bank of England seems willing to maintain interest rates waiting to see if the economy and inflation continue to weaken, or if the country will be affected by a crisis of energy prices derived from the conflict between Israel and Iran (Reuters) (Reuters)