{"id":42674,"date":"2013-10-03T05:23:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T09:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=42674"},"modified":"2013-10-03T05:23:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T09:23:51","slug":"european-stock-futures-open-flat-ahead-of-pmis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/10\/03\/european-stock-futures-open-flat-ahead-of-pmis\/","title":{"rendered":"European Stock Futures Open Flat Ahead of PMIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <u><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hymarkets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HY Markets Forex Blog<\/a><\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>European stock futures were seen opening flat on Tuesday as the US government shutdown continues, while the PMI services reports are expected to be released later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The pan-European Euro Stoxx 50 futures declined to 2,910.56 at the time of writing, while the French CAC 40 futures lost 0.04% at 4,163.87. At the same time the UK FTSE 100 edged 0.01% lower, standing at 6,419.68 and the German DAX futures rose 0.03% higher at 8,638.54.<span id=\"more-2525\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A string of Purchasing Managers\u2019 Index (PMI) service reports are expected to be released from Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the whole of eurozone , \u00a0between 7:00am GMT and 8:00am GMT.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">European Stock Futures &#8211;\u00a0ECB Announcement<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The confidence indicators showed that the eurozone was recovering, as ECB announced that rates will remain unchanged or lower levels &#8220;for an extended period of time,&#8221;\u00a0Mario Draghi, President of European Central Bank (ECB) said at the press conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The jobless claim figures in the eurozone remained higher, Draghi commented. Draghi also recapped that the bank\u2019s monetary policy will remain unchanged for as long as necessary.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Italy <\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Over the weekend, five ministers from Silvio Berlusconi\u2019s People of Freedom Party (PDL) resigned as the Prime Minister Enrico Letta won a confidence vote on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Victory of the vote was reached by the decision of the PDL members, as well as the resigning members.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on Wednesday the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi joined members of the People of Freedom Party (PDL) and said he would support the coalition government to avoid another political turmoil for the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Visit<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><a title=\"HY Markets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hymarkets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>www.hymarkets.com\u00a0<\/i><\/a><i>and find out how you can start trading in the European Market \u00a0today with only $50.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hymarkets.com\/world-market-news\/european-stock-futures-open.html\">European Stock Futures Open Flat Ahead of PMIs<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hymarkets.com\">| HY Markets Official blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Article provided by <strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hymarkets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HY Markets Forex Blog<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By HY Markets Forex Blog European stock futures were seen opening flat on Tuesday as the US government shutdown continues, while the PMI services reports are expected to be released later in the day. The pan-European Euro Stoxx 50 futures declined to 2,910.56 at the time of writing, while the French CAC 40 futures lost &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/10\/03\/european-stock-futures-open-flat-ahead-of-pmis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;European Stock Futures Open Flat Ahead of PMIs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}