European stocks set to slip at open; Mercedes car earnings plummet

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European banal markets are heading for a little unfastened Friday, rounding disconnected a mostly antagonistic week for planetary stocks arsenic third-quarter net play has ramped up.

European markets: Here are the opening calls

European markets are seen opening mixed connected Friday, according to IG data.

Germany's DAX is acceptable to unfastened 33 points little astatine 19,416, with France's CAC 40 down 11 points astatine 7,497. The U.K.'s FTSE 100 is seen heading for a cautiously brighter start, up 5 points astatine 8,279, on with Italy's MIB, seen up 20 points 34,544.

— Jenni Reid

CNBC Pro: Short Amazon and Apple arsenic they caput for all-time highs, accidental Itau BBA analysts

As firm giants study their quarterly finances successful the coming days, 1 concern slope has suggested that investors stake against 2 Big Tech stocks.

CNBC Pro subscribers tin work much astir wherefore the expert is telling clients to short Apple and Amazon here.

— Ganesh Rao

China's PBOC keeps medium-term indebtedness complaint unchanged

China's cardinal slope kept the involvement complaint connected medium-term loans to banks unchanged astatine 2%, according to the bank's connection connected Friday.

The People's Bank of China issued 700 cardinal yuan ($98.36 billion) worthy of one-year medium-term lending installation (MLF) loans to fiscal institutions astatine 2%, to "maintain capable magnitude of liquidity successful the banking system."

The bid rates successful Friday's cognition ranged from 1.9% to 2.3%, and the full equilibrium of MLF loans present stands astatine 6.789 trillion yuan, the cardinal slope said.

— Anniek Bao

CNBC Pro: The powerfulness assemblage is 'transforming,' Morgan Stanley says, naming planetary stocks acceptable to emergence 40%

The energy manufacture is transforming, according to Morgan Stanley, and aggregate powerfulness producers, grid operators and utilities are acceptable to benefit.

"Power request is booming, prices are inflecting, and outgo to nutrient cleanable powerfulness has fallen by a 3rd astir the satellite since 2023, and much truthful successful Asia," the concern bank's analysts outlined successful an Oct. 23 note.

"Global powerfulness markets person amazed connected aggregate fronts, and investors are navigating a caller mean successful the powerfulness worth chain," they added.

Morgan Stanley's analysts named 3 overweight-rated planetary stocks successful the energy assemblage which they springiness much than 40% imaginable upside.

CNBC Pro subscribers tin work much here.

— Amala Balakrishner

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