5 ASX small caps to watch on Wednesday 1 June. Picture Getty Image
Aussie shares are set to fall marginally at the opening bell, after Wall Street stumbled following a three-day long weekend.
Overnight, the Dow fell by 0.7%, the S&P 500 by 0.6%, and tech heavy Nasdaq by 0.4%.
European sharemarkets advanced despite EU inflation hitting a record 8.1% in May, the highest ever since the Euro’s creation in 1999.
Energy prices increased by 40%, while food and tobacco also rose by 7.5% for the 19 countries that use the EUR currency.
“Europe’s position is more complicated as it is effectively moving into a wartime economy for some time to come,” commented Oanda senior market analyst, Jeff Halley.
“Some are already talking about the ECB hiking by 0.50% in July now, these are strange times we live in,” he said.
Meanwhile, EU members have agreed to block 75% of Russian oil imports to the bloc immediately, and by as much as 90% by the end of the year.
Brent crude however fell to US$116 a barrel, after rising to as high as US$121 yesterday.
“The price action of oil this past week has been ominous, suggesting that supplies of refined products is getting worse, and not better,” said Halley.
“The EU oil ban on Russia further complicates that picture and I am wondering how long markets can continue bottom-fishing elsewhere while ignoring oil’s price rise.”
Back home, the ABS will release the first-quarter GDP data at 11.30am AEST.
Economists at the ANZ are expecting a big lift in the data.
For Australia's Q1 GDP, the partial indicators out today have led us to lift our expectation for +0.8% q/q from our preliminary +0.6% forecast. This is a solid result given the challenges of Omicron, heavy rain and floods through much of the quarter @felicity_emmett pic.twitter.com/9GL3HK7pFT
— ANZ_Research (@ANZ_Research) May 31, 2022
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