It’s a quiet day on the Amsterdam stock market in anticipation of the interest rate decision by the Federal Reserve tonight. The AEX AEX 447.40 – 0.05% – 0.24 is heading in the course of the morning slightly lower, with a loss of 0.3% at 446.28 points. Supermarket giant Ahold was the biggest riser, the bank ING the largest daler. ING ING Groep 10.95 – 3.31% – 0.38 today trades ex-dividend, which explains the lower rate.
Ahold
Ahold Koninklijke Ahold NV 19.61 +2.70% 0.52 + , benefits possible from the strong start to the year by the Belgian Delhaize, which came out today with numbers. According to analysts from Bernstein’s figures Delhaize bode well for the future merged company Ahold, Delhaize. Delhaize has recorded higher sales in the first quarter of 2016, largely due to favorable exchange rates. The underlying operating result (EBITDA) increased by 15.6% to € 391 million.
King’s
Tuesday AEX still closed slightly higher, with DSM Royal DSM NV 53.99 + 1.18% 0.63 + as the biggest riser. The Midcap Midcap 667.87 + 0.23% 1.51 + is virtually unchanged at 666.41 points, with base investigator Fugro as the biggest riser. Most dramatically in the Midcap’s engineering firm Arcadis Arcadis 14.30 – 4.44% -0.67 , which like ING trades ex-dividend.
Many Dutch investors and traders take King’s a day off, even though Euronext Amsterdam is open plain. And after the flood of quarterly results processed investors yesterday, the King’s agenda is empty. In addition to ING and Arcadis also acts BinckBank BinckBank 5.18 – 3.72% -0.20 ex-dividend.
fireworks
More importantly, investors are pending worldwide on the decisions of monetary policy committees of the central banks of Japan and the United States. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday comes with an interest rate decision, the Bank of Japan following Thursday morning (Dutch time). The Fed is expected to keep interest rates at 0.5%, but possibly with a more optimistic story is about the economic outlook. That would pave the way for another rate hike later this year.
The Bank of Japan could well be more fireworks in the can stand agenda. A slim majority of economists polled by Bloomberg think that the Japanese central bank with some form of additional stimulus will come. Or in the form of a rate cut, additional bond purchases or additional share repurchase, there will walk over their differing views.
oil companies
in Amsterdam there are no results on the agenda, but it is earnings season just from elsewhere in Europe. The Norwegian oil company Statoil announced in the first quarter of 2016 a decline in profit to $ 122. A year earlier figure was $ 902 million. Statoil attributes this to the sharp fall in oil prices. The French Total presenting better than expected figures, thanks to the refining operations. Net profit decreased by 36% to $ 16 billion. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected $ 1.2 billion.
British Petroleum yesterday reported a loss of $ 583 million for Q1. That result is distorted by a charge of $ 917 million to the British company took over the past quarter because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, now more than six years ago. The next few days do more peers of main fund Shell Royal Dutch Shell A Shs 23.25 + 1.00% 0.23 + open the books tomorrow and Friday ConocoPhillips, Eni, ExxonMobil and Chevron. Shell itself follows next Wednesday
KLM
Bestuursvoorzitter Philippe Mellier of the South African diamond company De Beers by the French business newspaper La Tribune tipped as the new boss of airlines Air France and KLM Air France-KLM 7.97 + 0.68% 0.05 + . Also, two executives of Airbus would be on the shortlist for the succession of the Juniac.
Asia and Wall Street
The Asian stock markets are slightly lower, after a slight decrease Chinese consumer confidence. Oil prices rose slightly, a barrel of Brent now costs $ 46.75. Investors dare already talking again about a price of $ 50 per barrel.
The lock of the main indicators of Wall Street will European trading Wednesday giving little direction: they were barely out of their place. The S & amp; P 500 index rose by 0.19%, the Dow Jones 0.07% and the Nasdaq finished 0.15% lower
the S & amp; P 500 last week, the highest level in four months, but sputtering stalled by a stream of quarterly results that could not inspire investors. Nabeurs presented figures from Twitter and Apple disappoints investors. Apple saw the first sales decline in 13 years. In after the stock lost 8% of its value.
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