European stock markets opened lower on Tuesday as energy shares led benchmarks down following yesterday’s historic rout on oil. Analysts and traders clearly didn’t expect black gold to go below zero and this has unsurprisingly had a negative impact on European oil majors like Total and Eni, which are currently trading 5% lower and in such a bearish environment their bottom may still be considerably lower still.
Elsewhere traders welcomed lower trends of coronavirus cases from many of the worst-affected areas, which helped sustain positive market sentiment for non-energy sectors. However, all eyes will be on today’s earning reports with many large caps such as Procter and Gamble, Texas Instrument, Netflix and Lockheed Martin publishing their Q1 results and this could significantly increase market volatility in the afternoon.
The Stoxx-50 Index is trading lower, just above the lower band of its bullish wedge pattern and this usually indicates a continuation of the underlying trend, which is currently bearish. Even if the price remains inside its current chart pattern, the RSI indicator showed a break-out of its bullish trendline and currently challenges its 50% neutral line and a break-out of the market below 2,800pts could quickly lead the market much lower towards 2,300pts.
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