{"id":438259,"date":"2026-09-17T14:25:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/european-stock-market-open-stocks-rally-as-bond-yields-ease-after-fed-hike-438259\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:25:48","slug":"european-stock-market-open-stocks-rally-as-bond-yields-ease-after-fed-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/european-stock-market-open-stocks-rally-as-bond-yields-ease-after-fed-hike-438259\/","title":{"rendered":"European stock market open: Stocks rally as bond yields ease after Fed hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>European stocks are opening firmly higher, extending the relief move from yesterday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nEurostoxx +0.7%<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Germany DAX +0.8%<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>France CAC 40 +0.5%<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>UK FTSE +0.9%<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Spain IBEX +0.7%<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Italy FTSE MIB +0.7%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">The main story to start the session is that\u00a0markets are taking some comfort from <a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/long-end-treasury-yields-stay-calm-as-markets-digest-the-fed\/\" rel=\"follow\">the reaction in the long-end of the bond market<\/a> after the Fed.\u00a0The central bank raised rates by 25 bps to 3.75%-4.00% and maintained a hawkish message, but 10-year Treasury yields have stayed around the 5% mark rather than breaking sharply higher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Why does that matter exactly?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Heading into the Fed, one of the biggest risks was that another hawkish policy signal would accelerate the global bond selloff. Instead, what we&#8217;re seeing &#8211; at least for now &#8211; is some stabilisation in long-term yields. And that is giving stocks some room for a relief bounce.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">The latest drop in oil prices is also helping with the overall market mood. That comes after\u00a0Saudi Arabia offered additional crude cargoes through Oman, easing some immediate fears over Middle East supply disruption. Brent crude is down nearly 2% close to $104 while WTI crude is down by over 1% to be back under $101 today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">The combination of those developments is particularly supportive for the rate and energy-sensitive parts of the market. Banks, industrials and other cyclicals had already started recovering yesterday, while the likes of Siemens Energy, RWE, and Hochtief were among the stronger DAX names.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Looking to US futures, they are also pointing modestly higher\u00a0after Wall Street initially struggled with the Fed\u2019s hawkish message. S&amp;P 500 futures are up by 0.8% and Nasdaq futures up by 0.9%, helping to add to the more\u00a0constructive tone in Europe this morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Overall, the market is looking more risk-on but this still has the makings of a relief rally rather than an all-clear.\u00a0The key now is whether long-end yields can continue to behave through to the end of the week. The Fed has made clear that further tightening remains on the table, so another move higher in Treasury yields could quickly test this rebound.<\/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>European stocks are opening firmly higher, extending the relief move from yesterday: Eurostoxx +0.7% Germany DAX +0.8% France CAC 40 +0.5% UK FTSE +0.9% Spain IBEX +0.7% Italy FTSE MIB +0.7% The&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-438259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438259","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=438259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}