At around 09:20 in Lisbon, the PSI maintained its opening trend and fell 0.90% to 6,856.00 points, with 12 'stocks' falling and four rising in price.

The shares of BCP and Galp were followed by those of Jerónimo Martins, Altri and Mota-Engil, which registered losses of 0.87% to 20.58 euros, 0.80% to 4.97 euros and 0.69% to 4.02 euros.

Semapa and Sonae shares fell 0.65% to 15.40 euros and 0.63% to 0.94 euros, while NOS and Navigator shares both fell 0.60% to 3.33 euros and 3.99 euros.

EDP Renováveis, CTT and Greenvolt shares also fell, namely 0.27% to 14.93 euros, 0.23% to 4.32 euros and 0.12% to 8.29 euros.

On the other hand, the shares that appreciated the most were Ibersol and Corticeira Amorim, which rose 1.37% to 7.38 euros and 0.52% to 9.63 euros.

The other two stocks that rose were EDP and REN, which registered gains of 0.32% to 3.79 euros and 0.22% to 2.32 euros, respectively.

The main European stock markets were down today, with investors already looking ahead to Thursday's meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB).

The market is assuming that the ECB will cut interest rates by 25 basis points, which will be the first cut since March 2016.

Meanwhile, on Wall Street, the main indicators closed in mixed territory, on a day when the industrial sector showed signs of slowing, which caused a drop in debt yields and the dollar.

Investors are now awaiting the May jobs data, which will be released on Friday, with expectations of an economic slowdown sufficient for the Federal Reserve (Fed) to cut rates soon.

Similar to Wall Street, Asian markets also traded with a mixed trend this morning. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong and the Shanghai Stock Exchange rose, while the Nikkei in Tokyo ended lower.

Several macroeconomic data will be released today, such as German unemployment.

In Spain, employment increased by 220,289 people, the best May since 2018, and unemployment fell to 2.6 million people.

In the US, and before the aforementioned official employment report, the JOLTS survey on available jobs will be released today.

In the commodities market, Brent crude, the benchmark in Europe, continues to fall today, after falling more than 3% on Monday.

The barrel of Brent oil for delivery in August opened today at $77.41 on the Intercontinental Exchange Futures (ICE) in London, against $78.36 on Monday.

The interest rates on the 10-year German bond, considered the safest in Europe, fell to 2.546%, against 2.579% on Monday.

On the exchange rate front, the euro opened higher on the Frankfurt exchange market, trading at 1.0888 dollars, against 1.0885 dollars in the previous session.

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