South Korea’s political crisis added to uncertainty in the morning markets in Asia. In Europe today, tensions are rising over the vote of no confidence in France, which could topple the country’s government.
In a tense situation, the stock market has opened looking for a direction, but since the beginning the rise has strengthened. The Stoxx 600 index was up 0.2 percent after half an hour of trading. Paris’s CAC 40 was up 0.3 percent and Frankfurt’s Dax was at a record high of 0.4 percent.
Of the Stoxx industry indices, the strongest increase of 1.1 percent was the shares of retail stores, and the 09 percent increase was the shares of car factories. The prices of shares in the technology sector were up by 0.75 percent. The technology sector is boosted by yesterday’s better-than-expected result of the USA’s Salesforce
On average, shares in the healthcare sector fell by 0.6 percent