European markets are expected to return from the long Easter weekend on a positive note.<\/p>\n
The U.K.’s FTSE 100<\/a> index is expected to open 60 points higher at 8,254, Germany’s DAX<\/a> up 253 points at 21,064, France’s CAC<\/a>\u00a081 points higher at 7,241 and Italy’s FTSE MIB<\/a> 441 points higher at 34,967, according to data from IG.<\/p>\n There are no major earnings or data releases from Europe Tuesday but traders will be keeping an eye on news and comment out of the IMF-World Bank Spring meetings in Washington this week, where the threat and fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs regime is likely to dominate discussions.<\/p>\n Asia-Pacific markets were subdued overnight, tracking Wall Street’s sharp sell-off after Trump\u00a0doubled down on his pressure campaign<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Federal Reserve<\/a>\u00a0Chairman\u00a0Jerome Powell<\/a>.<\/p>\n Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday that the economy\u00a0would slow<\/a>\u00a0if the Fed did not cut interest rates. In the latest of multiple recent posts calling out Powell by name, he called the Fed chief “Mr. Too Late” and a “major loser.”<\/p>\n Trump hinted at Powell’s\u00a0“termination”<\/a>\u00a0last week, an unprecedented action that White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett said the president’s team was\u00a0currently studying.<\/a>\u00a0Powell has said he\u00a0cannot be fired<\/a>\u00a0under law and intends to serve through the end of his term in May 2026.<\/p>\n \u2014 CNBC’s Alex Harring contributed to this market summary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European markets are expected to return from the long Easter weekend on a positive note. The U.K.’s FTSE…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5189,3085,32,2000,299,5187,36,1824,2199,17178,5191,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-40448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-breaking-news-europe","9":"tag-business-news","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-italy","17":"tag-jerome-powell","18":"tag-stoxx-600","19":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114380388626453585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}