{"id":118651,"date":"2025-09-10T11:36:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=118651"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:36:50","slug":"european-stocks-rise-as-investors-eye-inflation-data-french-politics-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/european-stocks-rise-as-investors-eye-inflation-data-french-politics-in-focus\/09\/10\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"European Stocks Rise as Investors Eye Inflation Data, French Politics in Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>European shares advanced on Wednesday, tracking Wall Street\u2019s overnight strength, as traders shifted focus toward key U.S. and Eurozone inflation releases that could shape monetary policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 03:15 ET (07:15 GMT), <strong>Germany\u2019s DAX gained 0.5%<\/strong>, <strong>France\u2019s CAC 40 rose 0.4%<\/strong>, and the <strong>U.K.\u2019s FTSE 100 climbed 0.2%<\/strong>. The pan-European <strong>STOXX 600 added 0.21% to 550.37 points<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Inflation data in spotlight<\/strong><br>Investor sentiment was boosted after all three major Wall Street indices closed at record highs on Tuesday, driven by expectations that the <strong>Federal Reserve will cut rates at its Sept. 16\u201317 meeting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Markets are weighing whether the Fed will opt for a <strong>25 bps cut or a larger 50 bps move<\/strong>, depending on upcoming inflation figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>U.S. PPI data<\/strong> is due later Wednesday.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>U.S. CPI data<\/strong> follows on Thursday, with consensus forecasts pointing to a <strong>0.3% monthly rise<\/strong> across the board, which would lift annual CPI to <strong>2.9%<\/strong>, while core CPI is expected to hold steady at <strong>3.1%<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, fresh data from China showed that consumer prices fell more than expected in August, underscoring entrenched deflationary pressures, while producer prices marked their <strong>35th straight monthly decline<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>French politics in transition<\/strong><br>French President <strong>Emmanuel Macron<\/strong> appointed loyalist <strong>Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister<\/strong>, a day after Francois Bayrou lost a no-confidence vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unusually, Macron asked Lecornu to seek compromise with all parliamentary forces before forming his cabinet, as France prepares for a crucial <strong>Fitch Ratings review on Friday<\/strong>, with its AA- grade carrying a negative outlook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European shares advanced on Wednesday, tracking Wall Street\u2019s overnight strength, as traders shifted focus toward key U.S. and Eurozone inflation releases that could shape monetary policy. At 03:15 ET (07:15 GMT), Germany\u2019s DAX gained 0.5%, France\u2019s CAC 40 rose 0.4%, and the U.K.\u2019s FTSE 100 climbed 0.2%. The pan-European STOXX 600 added 0.21% to 550.37 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":98251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-commodities-news","category-market-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118652,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118651\/revisions\/118652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}