In advance on IG Markets, today’s stock market also looks like it will open with little movement, the futures on OMXS30 are trading at plus 0.1 percent.
A similar cautious trend was seen on Wall Street at the close.
In Asia, most major stock exchanges are trading at a plus. The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Topix Index is up 0.6 percent, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange at 1.5 percent and the Shanghai Stock Exchange at 0.6 percent.
The Asian stock markets reacted positively to a Chinese stimulus package of 146 billion dollars, which is supposed to boost growth.
Investors are generally jittery on the outside ahead of the central bank governors’ meeting in Jackson Hole, which begins on Friday when Fed chief Jerome Powell is scheduled to speak.