Today’s Stock Exchanges, June 1st. Positive price lists after the US House’s ok on debt

MILAN – Positive restart for the European stock exchanges after the US House voted the green light to raise the debt ceiling during the night, with the Senate which will instead have to express itself by June 5th. The optimism of the markets was boosted by the good data from Chinese manufacturing, with the PMI rising beyond expectations in May, and the indications from some members of the Fed board on a possible pause by the US central bank in rate hikes. In this sense, the governor of the Fed expressed himself Philip Jeffersonexplaining that the Fed is inclined to keep interest rates unchanged in June to assess the economic outlook and similar indications came from the Philadelphia Fed chairman Patrick Harker, chairman of the Philadelphia Fed. Positive session for Asian markets, with Tokyo closing up 0.84%.