LONDON — European markets are expected to unfastened successful level to antagonistic territory arsenic investors instrumentality banal of the volatile twelvemonth during Christmas Eve's shortened trading session.
The U.K.'s FTSE 100 and Germany's DAX were past seen edging beneath the flatline, portion France's CAC was 0.1% little according to information from IG Group.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 closed 0.3% higher connected Tuesday, notching a caller grounds closing high, buoyed by Copenhagen-listed Novo Nordisk's booming stock terms aft it gained FDA support for the first-ever GLP-1 pill.
French pharmaceutical institution Sanofi connected Tuesday announced it volition get U.S. institution Dynavax successful a woody worthy $2.2 billion. Dynavax has a marketed big hepatitis B vaccine and a shingles vaccine campaigner successful the works.
Gold and silver futures are connected a tear, having deed caller highs during some Monday and Tuesday's trading sessions. They were past seen trading astatine $4,514.3 per ounce and $72.165 per ounce, respectively.
Thierry Breton, a erstwhile European Union commissioner down the Digital Services Act, and anti-disinformation campaigners received visa bans from the U.S. for allegedly censoring U.S. societal media platforms. It comes arsenic President Donald Trump continues to ramp up travel restrictions for overseas visitors and criticizes Europe.
"For acold excessively long, ideologues successful Europe person led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose. The Trump Administration volition nary longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said connected X, though helium did not sanction those affected. Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers aboriginal identified the 5 radical affected.
Elsewhere, Asia-Pacific markets traded mostly higher arsenic respective indexes are acceptable to adjacent aboriginal due to the fact that of the Christmas Eve holiday. U.S. banal futures traded adjacent the flatline overnight contempt the S&P 500 besides notching a grounds close.
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