At 09:05 in Lisbon, the EuroStoxx 600 was up 0.10% to 523.46 points.

The London, Paris and Frankfurt stock exchanges rose 0.26%, 0.37% and 0.28%, while Madrid's rose 0.05%.

Milan was the exception, as it fell 1.22%.

After opening higher, the Lisbon stock exchange maintained the trend, with the main index, the PSI, up 1.07% to 6,960.80 points at 09:05.

On the other side of the Atlantic, Wall Street ended Friday with a mixed trend, although the Dow Jones Industrials, the main indicator, surpassed 40,000 points and has been rising for five consecutive weeks.

The Dow Jones ended up 0.34% to 40,003.59 points, a new high since its creation in 1896, and the Nasdaq fell 0.07% to 16,685.97 points, against the high of 16,742.39 points seen on May 15.

After the highs on Wall Street, the week in Asia started on a positive note, with the Nikkei in Tokyo rising 0.73% and the Shanghai stock exchange gaining 0.42%.

Earlier today, the People's Bank of China announced that it will keep the benchmark interest rate at 3.45% for the tenth consecutive month, thus meeting the expectations of analysts, who did not expect any change.

Today, investors will be watching the consequences of the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on Sunday.

Analysts at Renta4 quoted by Efe explain that, at the geopolitical level, the death of the Iranian president "should not cause internal instability in Iran, since the security forces and the army are under the control of the Supreme Leader, although there are elections within 50 days to appoint a new president".

"We will be watching the impact on OPEC+, which has scheduled its next meeting for June 1, given the death of the Iranian president and concerns about the health of the King of Saudi Arabia," they said.

Gold hit a new high today, reaching $2,450.07 an ounce, while silver rose to a new high since the end of 2012 of $32.51 an ounce earlier this morning.

At this hour, the price of silver is falling to 31.6 an ounce, as is gold, to $2,440.8.

The interest rate on the 10-year German bond, considered the safest in Europe, rose to 2.519%, against 2.515% on Friday.

The Brent oil barrel for July delivery opened higher today, trading at $84.27 on the Intercontinental Exchange Futures (ICE) in London, against $83987 on Friday.

In terms of exchange rates, the euro opened higher on the Frankfurt exchange market, trading at $1.0872, against $1.0869 in the previous session.

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