{"id":437605,"date":"2026-09-07T14:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/european-stock-market-open-a-cautious-mood-as-oil-and-rate-fears-keep-risk-appetite-in-check-437605\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:36:38","slug":"european-stock-market-open-a-cautious-mood-as-oil-and-rate-fears-keep-risk-appetite-in-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/european-stock-market-open-a-cautious-mood-as-oil-and-rate-fears-keep-risk-appetite-in-check-437605\/","title":{"rendered":"European stock market open: A cautious mood as oil and rate fears keep risk appetite in check"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Here&#8217;s a look at how European indices are faring at the open as we get into the new day\/week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eurostoxx -0.1%<\/li>\n<li>Germany DAX -0.2%<\/li>\n<li>France CAC 40 -0.1%<\/li>\n<li>UK FTSE -0.1%<\/li>\n<li>Spain IBEX -0.1%<\/li>\n<li>Italy FTSE MIB +0.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">The more cautious tone comes despite a stronger tech-led session in Asia, as investors have to contend with another push up in oil prices, relatively hawkish central bank expectations, and still lingering US-Iran tensions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Of note, WTI crude is trading up 0.5% to $91.95 with Brent crude up 0.8% to $97.05 currently. That comes as US and Iran exchange more strikes near the Strait of Hormuz with the latter also preparing for restrictions along the waterway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">The moves to start the day are relatively light, and limited by mixed signals from US futures. S&amp;P 500 futures may be flat but Dow futures are down 0.4% while Nasdaq futures are up 0.2%. The cash market in the US will be closed in observance of Labor Day, so that will further restrict any directional push from here towards the market sentiment in Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">For now, it seems that the key concerns noted above are\u00a0offsetting the positive read-through from tech gains to start the new week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">There will be much bigger fish to try with the ECB policy decision coming up on Thursday and more importantly the US CPI report on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a look at how European indices are faring at the open as we get into the new day\/week: Eurostoxx -0.1% Germany DAX -0.2% France CAC 40 -0.1% UK FTSE -0.1% Spain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}