{"id":561836,"date":"2026-05-02T04:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561836\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T04:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:45:23","slug":"reminder-european-markets-will-be-closed-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561836\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: European markets will be closed today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">The closure will be in observance of Labor Day and extends to all major European markets. Even the ECB&#8217;s payment and securities settlement systems will be down. As such, that will impact liquidity conditions as well. So, don&#8217;t expect any leading direction from Europe in driving broader markets for the session ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">London will still be open though, so there&#8217;s at least that to work with. But all things considered, the broader market mood is still heavily riding on what happens next with the US-Iran conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">For now though, Wall Street doesn&#8217;t seem to care but are investors being too complacent here? That&#8217;s something to consider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">The dollar is keeping steadier after the drop yesterday with USD\/JPY bouncing back today to 157.25 currently, up 0.5% on the day. Meanwhile, S&amp;P 500 futures are up 0.2% after the solid gains overnight. It will be interesting to see how much of yesterday&#8217;s moves were tied to month-end or markets being overly eager in writing off the war. We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The closure will be in observance of Labor Day and extends to all major European markets. Even the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-561836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}