2011/5/6

Europe: hesitation waltz on all seats

This Friday, investors are struggling to make decisions before the highly-anticipated employment report for April.
Lisbon and Frankfurt gaining 0.5%, 0.2% Paris and Amsterdam revolves around the balance, while Brussels and Madrid lost 0.7% and 0.2% in London.
Aurel BGC qualifies as a "key [s]" the U.S. unemployment figures for publication should drive the market trend in the afternoon.
Economists expect an average of 200,000 new jobs outside agriculture, but some may have revised their expectations downward after the ADP survey on Wednesday, which has reported 179,000 new posts in the private sector.
In addition, investors have learned that morning that industrial producer prices (PPI) in the United Kingdom increased by 5.3% yoy in April 2011 by the UK Office of Statistics, compared with a up 5.6% in March.
A picture of the week, the news company is still rich on Friday, marked by numerous quarterly publications.
Thus, RBS is able to advance by 5.5% to 42.7 pence in early trade in London, despite a loss under its announced first quarter of 2011 mainly as a result of its exposure to the Irish crisis.
International Airlines Group (IAG) wins 2.4% to 252 pence on the London Stock Exchange, sought after publication of results in significant improvement in the first quarter 2011.
In addition, BASF, down 0.7% to 65.5 euros, publishes sales up 25% in the first quarter of 2011, to 19.4 billion euros, driven in part by Cognis, acquired the last year.
Deutsche Telekom is struggling to convince this morning at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, while he has published quarterly results in sharp decline.
Finally, Belgacom picks up 5.6% to 24.8 euros in Brussels, following a point of activity marked by a profit warning for the entire year.