{"id":118940,"date":"2025-09-17T13:27:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=118940"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:27:04","slug":"european-stocks-edge-higher-as-fed-decision-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/european-stocks-edge-higher-as-fed-decision-looms\/09\/17\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"European Stocks Edge Higher as Fed Decision Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>European equities traded cautiously higher on <strong>Wednesday morning<\/strong>, as investors braced for the <strong>Federal Reserve\u2019s policy announcement<\/strong> and <strong>Jerome Powell\u2019s speech<\/strong>, which could set the tone for global markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Market Moves<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>STOXX 600<\/strong>: up <strong>0.1% at 551.58<\/strong>, recovering from a one-week low.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sector Drivers<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Technology<\/strong> led gains, with <strong>SAP +4.1%<\/strong>, bouncing back on Jefferies\u2019 optimistic note about cloud intake and cash flow.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Financials<\/strong> remained weak, pressured by rate sensitivity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Currency Effect<\/strong>: The <strong>euro has rallied over 10%<\/strong>, which analysts warn could shave about <strong>4% off export-driven earnings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Corporate Highlights<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Nestl\u00e9<\/strong>: -0.4% after Chairman <strong>Paul Bulcke<\/strong> announced plans to step down, following recent CEO changes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Unilever (Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s)<\/strong>: Shares struggled after co-founder <strong>Jerry Greenfield<\/strong> quit amid a rift with the parent company.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>PostNL<\/strong>: +5% after unveiling its new <strong>Capital Markets Day strategy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Macro &amp; Fed Focus<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <strong>Fed<\/strong> is expected to <strong>cut rates by 25 bps<\/strong> later today, a move already priced in, driven by weakening U.S. labor market signals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Market attention will be on:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <strong>dot plot<\/strong> projections.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Powell\u2019s press conference for clues on whether this is the start of a <strong>longer easing cycle<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European equities traded cautiously higher on Wednesday morning, as investors braced for the Federal Reserve\u2019s policy announcement and Jerome Powell\u2019s speech, which could set the tone for global markets. Key Market Moves STOXX 600: up 0.1% at 551.58, recovering from a one-week low. Sector Drivers: Technology led gains, with SAP +4.1%, bouncing back on Jefferies\u2019 &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-118940","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\/118940","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=118940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118941,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118940\/revisions\/118941"}],"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=118940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}