Aug 08 ,2025
Synopsis
European indcies are set to open higher as Asian equities mixed Friday. Japan outperforming with SoftBank up big following earnings. Hang Seng leading China market declines with SMIC under pressure.
In Notable earnings this morning. Munich Re reports Q2 Operating result €2.92B vs FactSet €2.27B
US equities were mostly lower in Thursday trading though stocks ended off worst levels. However, stocks still on pace for solid weekly gains.
The Kremlin has confirmed that Russian President Putin will hold talks with US President Trump as early as next week
The BoE Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted 5-4 to cut its key Bank Rate by 25 bps to 4.00%, as expected. For the first time, MPC had to vote twice to reach a decision.
Trump's global tariffs took effect overnight, pushing effective tariff rate to highest level in nearly a century. Gold strengthening following FT report on US tariffs
Economic: UK Jul house price balance - RICS, Sweden Jun industrial production, Switzerland Jul consumer confidence - SECO, Netherlands Jun manufacturing production, Greece Jul CPI, Jun industrial.
Reported so far: France Q2 Unemployment Rate 7.5% vs consensus 7.5% and prior revised 7.5% from 7.4%
In earnings today: Bechtle, Fabasoft, SRV Group, 4SC, Oesterreichische Post, Rosenbauer International , Knaus Tabbert, NN Group, Bittium, Unipol Gruppo, bpost, Mobimo Holding, Jungheinrich, Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen- und Medizintechnik.
Politics/Macro/World News
Trump tells European leaders he will meet with Putin and Zelenskyy (Reuters )
Switzerland will pursue further talks with US over crippling tariffs (YahooFinance )
Top company news
Earnings/updates
STRO (Sutro Biopharma) -- reports Q2 EPS ($0.14) vs FactSet ($0.38) [10 est, ($0.64)-(0.04)]
BPOST.BB (bpost) -- reports Q2 net income €8.9M vs year-ago €39.3M
UNI.IM (Unipol Gruppo) -- reports H1 net income attributable €600M, +17% vs year-ago €511M
SUS.SS (Surgical Science Sweden) -- reports preliminary Q2 revenue SEK209M vs FactSet SEK256.5M [4 est, SEK245-261M]
MOL.HB (MOL Hungarian Oil & Gas) -- reports Q2 attributable net income Ft38.08B vs year-ago Ft123.73B
PHOR.RU (PhosAgro) -- reports 1H agrochemical output +4% to 6.12M tonnes
MOBN.SW (Mobimo Holding) -- reports H1 net income excluding revaluation CHF51.5M vs FactSet CHF56.6M [2 est, CHF50.5-62.7M]
MOBN.SW (Mobimo Holding) -- Follow-up: Mobimo Holding guides FY net income from development and sale of trading properties of at least CHF40M - slides
M&A
ELPE.GA (HELLENiQ ENERGY Holdings) -- acquires wind projects portfolio of over 400 MW
MOBN.SW (Mobimo Holding) -- Follow-up: Mobimo Holding guides FY net income from development and sale of trading properties of at least CHF40M - slides
BBU (Brookfield Business Partners) -- Warburg Pincus, KKR, CVC and Bain among bidders for alternative asset manager La Trobe Financial - Australian Financial Review
LICYQ (Li-Cycle Holdings) -- Glencore completes acquisition of select Li-Cycle Holdings assets
OXUR.BB (Oxurion) -- ends RD program in Geographic Atrophy and refocuses on new CRO activities
MOBN.SW (Mobimo Holding) -- to acquire EMWE Holding for cash and shares
MOBN.SW (Mobimo Holding) -- reports H1 net income excluding revaluation CHF51.5M vs FactSet CHF56.6M [2 est, CHF50.5-62.7M]
Healthcare
CVAC (CureVac) -- announces GSK, BioNTech and Pfizer have entered into agreements to resolve and dismiss all pending patent litigation in the U.S. between the companies related to mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines
COPN.SW (Cosmo Pharmaceuticals) -- announces renewal of strategic manufacturing agreement with Takeda for global supply of oral treatment for ulcerative colitis
Other
AIR.FP (Airbus SE) -- Airbus reports Jul gross orders 7 aircraft; deliveries 67 aircraft to 41 customers
BBVA.SM (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) -- Binance to allow customers to hold assets off exchange with BBVA, which will act as independent custodian - FT
STAN.LN (Standard Chartered) -- and Brazilian State of Acre government reach agreement to sell carbon credits
Intraday themes include OpenAI's GPT-5 release and reports GM to import CATL EV batteries (7-Aug)
Key rating changes
Upgrades
Goldman Sachs upgrades DEO, DGE.LN
PDX.SS (Paradox Interactive) -- to buy from hold at Pareto
PDX.SS (Paradox Interactive) -- to buy from hold at SEB
Downgrades
SDZ.SW (Sandoz Group) -- to hold from buy at Jefferies
FRA.GR (Fraport) -- to neutral from overweight at JPMorgan
CTPNV.NA (CTP NV) -- to hold from buy at Jefferies (earlier, timing uncertain)
Initiations
SQN.SW (Swissquote Group Holding) -- neutral at Oddo
Data
Nikkei +1.90% to 41839.74
Hang Seng (0.79%) to 24882.32
Shanghai Composite (0.04%) to 3638.12
S&P futures +11.0 vs prior close of 6366.5
€-$ (0.0024) or (0.21%) to 1.1643
$-¥ +0.26 or +0.17% to 147.38
€-¥ (0.06) or (0.03%) to 171.59
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