European markets set to open broadly higher as geopolitics remains in focus

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A trader works astatine his table connected the level of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) aft the opening doorbell successful New York connected December 3, 2025.

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LONDON — European stocks are expected to unfastened broadly higher connected Tuesday, with investors keeping an oculus connected geopolitical developments and data.

The U.K.'s FTSE scale is seen opening flat, Germany's DAX and France's CAC 40 up 0.2%, respectively, and Italy's FTSE MIB is expected to unfastened 0.14% higher, according to information from IG.

European stocks began the caller trading week successful affirmative territory arsenic investors weighed geopolitical developments successful Iran, and the launching of a criminal probe into the U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Powell said Sunday that the probe was different effort by President Donald Trump to power the cardinal bank's monetary argumentation and that helium would not bow to the pressure. His word arsenic seat is owed to extremity successful May.

Market watchers are besides keeping an oculus connected the developments successful Iran this week aft wide protests person been met with a convulsive crackdown by the Iranian authorities.

Trump is reportedly weighing options to instrumentality enactment against Iran and connected Monday said that any state doing concern with Iran will look a 25% tariff "on immoderate and each concern being done with the United States of America."

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Asia-Pacific markets traded higher overnight, portion U.S. banal futures ticked little arsenic investors awaited the merchandise of user ostentation information and cardinal slope net results, with JPMorgan owed to study connected Tuesday.

The user terms scale study is expected to springiness a fuller representation of prices aft disruptions caused by the prolonged U.S. authorities shutdown past fall. Economists expect the study to amusement prices roseate 2.7% successful the 12 months ending successful December, according to Dow Jones statement estimates.

There are nary large net oregon information releases successful Europe connected Tuesday.

— CNBC's Pia Singh contributed to this marketplace report.

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