Asian stock markets close on the rise despite uncertainty over China's economic recovery. Investors' attention is focused on the next moves of central banks, in particular the Fed, after GDP and inflation in the United States.

Tokyo is up sharply (+1.90%). On the currency market, the yen returns to weaken against the dollar, at 150.30 and against the euro at 162.50. On the macroeconomic front, the PMI manufacturing indices of Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the USA and the Eurozone are arriving.