Europe Defense Spending Lifts Stocks, Hurts Bonds: Markets Wrap

Europe Defense Spending Lifts Stocks, Hurts Bonds: Markets Wrap

(Bloomberg) – European bonds have declined and defense companies have risen to the possibility of increasing military spending, which may force governments to intensify borrowing in the coming years.

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All the prices of German, French and Italian bonds decreased, as Bund's revenues for 10 years-the euro-euros-borrowing rate at the highest level in more than two weeks. While the decline in bonds slowed, the Stoxx 600's gains in Europe extended to 0.5 %, and the Goldman Sachs Group Index for European Defense shares topped a record number.

German defense company Rheinmetall AG increased by 14 %, helping Frankfurt Bourb to raise a new standard – 17 of the year. The American markets were closed for a vacation, but American stock futures rose. Bitcoin decreased by 2 %.

These moves came when the United States asked European countries to clarify the security guarantees and equipment they could provide to Ukraine to ensure a permanent peace settlement. European officials say they are working on a major package to intensify defensive spending and some European Union leaders gather in Paris to extract their response.

“Goal tools turn, and the European Union realizes that it can depend less and less on the United States to protect their borders. Aneeeka Gupta, head of macro research at Wisdomtree UK Ltd.: Said:

The developments have strengthened the opinion that debt sales will need to increase, as European countries bear the cost of a permanent peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine's defense promotion and Ukraine may cost the main forces in Europe an additional $ 3.1 trillion over 10 years, according to Bloomberg's economic estimates.

The European Minister of European Affairs, Benjamin Haddad, told Bloomberg TV before the Paris meeting that the joint European Union's defense financing bonds could be released, which is the option of the bloc division so far.

Meanwhile, European stocks also get a batch of China, a major export market. A meeting between President Xi Jinping and business characters, including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Jack did not hope for a year -old repression campaign on the private sector.

In the currency markets, the Japanese yen is strengthened against all of their peers among 10 out of 10 of its peers after the economy grew faster than expected, which strengthened the expectations of high interest rates from the Bank of Japan.

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