Wall Street: wind of optimism with Trump's AI plan
Around 30 minutes before the opening, futures on New York's main indices were up between 0.3% and 1%, suggesting a continuation of the previous day's upward movement.
Quarterly publications have accelerated sharply in recent hours, with 43 S&P 500 and six Dow Jones companies due to publish their accounts this week.
Among the Dow components, Procter & Gamble gained more than 3% in pre-opening trading after announcing better-than-expected quarterly earnings and sales.
Conversely, healthcare group Johnson & Johnson lost more than 2% in pre-opening trading in the wake of a 2025 outlook that was deemed to be a little tight.
In the technology sector, Netflix is expected to jump 14% at the opening after reporting a record quarter in terms of subscribers last night, and expressing its intention to raise prices again.
The market trend continues to be dictated by political news, following the presentation last night by new President Donald Trump of an ambitious investment plan in AI.
The project, dubbed 'Stargate', which also involves Softbank, Oracle and OpenAI, could reach $500 billion over the next four years.
These new expenditures, which come on top of the budgets already released by Microsoft, Amazon and Google in the field, should reinforce the sector's good health and breathe new life into the economy.
On the currency markets, the dollar continued its decline against the euro, which managed to hover above the 1.04 threshold against the greenback, at around 1.0435.
Yields on US Treasury bonds continued to fall, with the 10-year bond dipping to 4.57%.
A victim of profit-taking after peaking above $80 last week, a barrel of Texas light crude (WTI) is trying to stabilize in the $75.8 zone.
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