{"id":70221,"date":"2022-08-16T18:35:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T14:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=70221"},"modified":"2022-08-16T18:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T14:35:13","slug":"market-drivers-european-session-16-8-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/market-drivers-european-session-16-8-2022\/08\/16\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Drivers \u2013 European Session 16\/8\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>European shares extended gains for the fifth consecutive session on Tuesday, supported by the mining and defense sectors, although fears of a possible recession limited the pace of the indices&#8217; upside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An internal European Union document shows the bloc plans to fivefold financial support for an African military mission in Mozambique, at a time when Islamist attacks threaten gas projects that are supposed to reduce the bloc&#8217;s dependence on Russian energy resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The leading Swedish furniture maker has decided to liquidate its Russian unit, Ikea Dome, to further reduce its operations after more than a decade of starting its presence in the country, a record showed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dozens of brands suspended operations in Russia after Moscow sent tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine on February 24. Companies such as H&amp;M, IKEA and Nike were among the companies that announced plans for a permanent exit from the Russian market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ikea, the world&#8217;s largest furniture brand, closed its stores in March and said it would sell factories, close headquarters and cut its 15,000-strong workforce in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Energy shortages due to the Ukraine war have added impetus to Europe&#8217;s quest for gas off the northern coast of Mozambique, where Western oil companies plan to build a massive liquefied natural gas terminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inflation in Canada, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), declined to 7.6% on a yearly basis in July from 8.1% in June, the data published by Statistics Canada revealed on Tuesday. This print came in line with the market expectation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bank of Canada&#8217;s (BOC) Core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, edged lower to 6.1% from 6.2% in the same period, compared to analysts&#8217; estimate of 6.7%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data published by the US Federal Reserve showed on Tuesday that Industrial Production rose by 0.6% on a monthly basis in July. This print came in better than the market expectation for an expansion of 0.3%. In the same period, Manufacturing Production increased by 0.7% after having contracted by 0.4% in each of the previous two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European shares extended gains for the fifth consecutive session on Tuesday, supported by the mining and defense sectors, although fears of a possible recession limited the pace of the indices&#8217; upside. An internal European Union document shows the bloc plans to fivefold financial support for an African military mission in Mozambique, at a time when &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":52585,"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":[36],"tags":[6928,6911,6864,6837],"class_list":["post-70221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-market-updates","tag-euro","tag-europe","tag-european-stocks","tag-eurozone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70221","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=70221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70222,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70221\/revisions\/70222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}