He DAX gives up 0.6%, up to 24,123.44 points, the FT-100 opens flat at 9,748.90 points, the CAC-40 remains flat at 8,114 integers, the Eurostoxx 50 it gave up 0.3%, to 5,735.36 points and the FTSE MIB started from 44,052.50 points after dropping 0.3% at the opening. He IBEX 35 opens this Tuesday with subtractions of 0.18% at 17,011 points
On the corporate side, Greg Gut, Shell’s head of mergers, has left the oil company after CEO Wael Sawan and other top executives blocked an internal proposal to buy rival BP this year, the Financial Times reported today. The newspaper has claimed that Gut and the mergers and acquisitions team pushed for the deal, in which chairman Andrew Mackenzie was said to be interested.
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug Enhertu, developed by Astrazeneca and its partner Daiichi Sankyo, in combination with Roche ROG.S’ drug Perjeta, for the first-line treatment of patients with a type of breast cancer, the regulator said yesterday. Enhertu initially gained US approval in late 2019 as a third-line treatment for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer. The new approval allows the use of Enhertu with Roche’s Perjeta to treat adults with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer confirmed by an FDA-approved test.
A federal judicial panel announced Monday that it will centralize before a Pennsylvania judge the growing number of lawsuits against Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly & Co in which it is alleged that patients lost some or all of their vision while taking these companies’ successful weight loss drugs. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, which handles complex federal litigation, agreed with the plaintiffs that the cases should be centralized in their own multidistrict litigation (MDL) in federal court in Philadelphia, rather than added to the existing massive litigation in the same court over gastrointestinal side effects of medications.
The actions of the Juventus rose sharply yesterday after the Italian Agnelli family on Saturday rejected crypto group Tether’s surprise offer, which valued the Serie A soccer club at €1.1 billion ($1.29 billion). This contrasts with the club’s valuation of €1.3 billion based on Football Benchmark’s 2025 valuation report, fueling speculation about a possible bid upgrade.
Important macro agenda: PMI, retail sales and employment in the US
Today, the macroeconomic agenda highlights the publication in the Eurozone, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States of the preliminary readings for December of the leading sectoral activity indices, the manufacturing and services PMIs, prepared by S&P Global. «These indicators should confirm that private activity in the largest developed economies closes the year on a good note, supported by the strength of the services sector. Furthermore, and in Germany, the ZEW institute will release its December indices, indices that evaluate the perception that large investors and analysts have of the German economy, current situation and expectations. In principle, the readings are expected to remain low in relative historical terms,» say the experts at Link Securities.
However, the Investors’ full attention will practically be monopolized by the November nonfarm employment report (the October one will also be announced) published this afternoon by the US Department of Commerce. It is expected that it points to an economy that is generating new employment in a very marginal way, and in which the unemployment rate is, little by little, rebounding. «The reaction of investors to the data is not entirely clear. Worse figures than expected by the consensus of analysts (40,000 new non-agricultural jobs and an unemployment rate of 4.4%) might not be badly received by investors, since they would immediately bet on new interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve (Fed), even as early as 1Q2026. On the contrary, firm data, which points to an economy that continues behaving in a solid way could paradoxically have the opposite effect, although we are not sure of this,» they say at Link Securities.
Wall Street’s main indexes fell on Monday, as investors prepare for a barrage of economic data that could shape the path of interest rates and evaluate reports on candidates to chair the Federal Reserve. He S&P 500 lost 0.16%, to 6,816.51 points, while the Nasdaq Composite It lost 0.59%, to 23,057.41 points. The Dow Jones fell 0.09%, to 48,416.56 points.
The main Asian indices are moving negatively, with a Nikkei Japanese which fell 1.45% to 49,442 points. In China, the CSI 300 fell 1.20%, due to the 1.11% that the SSEC de Shanghai. Hong Kong 1.7% remains. For its part, the South Korean Kospi loses 2.24%.
Oil prices fall, extending losses from the previous session, as prospects for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine appear to strengthen, raising expectations of a possible easing of sanctions. The Brent oil future fell 0.5%, to $60.23, while West Texas fell 0.6%, to $56.33.
In the currency market, the Euro Dollar fell slightly to $1.1749 while among cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin fell more than 4%, to $86,109, and Ethereum fell more than 6.3%, to $2,927.38.