European actions fell on Monday, led by the automobile sector, due to the recent threat of US President Donald Trump, to impose strong tariffs on the European Union and Mexico, which keeps investors in suspense.
The Stoxx 600 panel Other regional indices also dropped, except for the United Kingdom FTSE, which rose 0.2%.
At the opening, with the euro falling 0.11 %, to 1,167 units, the bag that falls most is that of Frankfurt, 0.78 %, followed by Milan, with 0.74 %; Madrid, with 0.64 %; and Paris, with 0.60 %; While the Stoxx50 euro, an index in which the largest capitalization companies are quoted, 0.76 %is left.
London is the only bag that goes up, 0.19 %.
Trump’s threat
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On Saturday, Trump threatened to impose a 30 % tariff on imports from EU and Mexico from August 1, after weeks of negotiations with the main business partners of the United States without achieving comprehensive trade agreements.
In response, the EU announced on Sunday that it will extend the suspension of the countermeasures to US tariffs until early August and will continue to press to achieve a negotiated solution.
To aggravate the commercial crisis, this Monday, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani declared in a journalistic interview that the EU has already prepared a list of tariffs worth 21,000 million euros (24,500 million dollars) on US products if both parties do not reach an agreement.
Meanwhile, today’s extraordinary advice of the EU trade ministers to coordinate their response, with the expectation that the negotiations lead Trump to moderate tariffs from 30 % announced to 10 % for all products, except steel, aluminum and cars that would maintain 25 %.
In the market, the actions of the European automobile sector fell 1.4%, while those of the retail sector fell by 1%.
Improves business trust despite tariffs
Among the individual actions, Astrazeneca rose 1.9% after the pharmacist announced that its Baxdrostat drug completed all the main and secondary objectives of an advanced phase study in patients with non -controlled hypertension or treatment resistant.
In addition, it was known that business confidence improved 1.1 % for the third quarter of 2025 with respect to the second, which adds three consecutive trimesters upwards, despite the announcement of tariffs by Trump.
Bags fall in Asia and Wall Street
However, also in Asia, the reference index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Nikkei, closed with a 0.31 %drop, while the Shanghai bag won 0.27 %; and Shenzhen’s parquet lost 0.11 %.
For their part, Wall Street futures advance falls that are 0.51 % for Dow Jones of Industrials and Nasdaq, and 0.53 % for S&P 500.
Debt, raw materials and bitcóin
In the debt market, the interest of the German bonus at ten years rose slightly to 2,731 %, and the Spanish climbed up to 3,346 %.
With regard to raw materials, gold rises 0.50 %, up to $ 3.372 the price of the ounce, while oil also advances. The Brent, reference in Europe, scale 0.48 %, up to $ 70.7 a barrel, and West Texas Intermediate (WTI), reference in the US, advances 0.56 %, up to $ 68.82.
On the other hand, the bitcóin, in historical maximums, already rises 3.21 % and is located at $ 122,919, in a week in which the leaders of the US House of Representatives will discuss several bills related to cryptodivises.
rml (efe, reuters)
