One of the helicopters carrying Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and his woman Cilia Flores arrives aft they were captured overnight successful Venezuela by U.S. forces, astatine the Westside Heliport successful New York City, U.S. January 3, 2026.
Jeenah Moon | Reuters
LONDON — European stocks are expected to unfastened successful mixed territory Monday arsenic planetary markets respond to the U.S.' overthrow of Venezuelan person Nicolas Maduro.
The U.K.'s FTSE scale and France's CAC 40 are expected to unfastened 0.6% higher, Germany's DAX 0.5% higher and Italy's FTSE MIB up 0.7%, according to information from IG.
Global fiscal and oil markets are reacting to melodramatic developments successful Venezuela implicit the weekend, with the U.S. launching strikes connected the Latin American state earlier capturing President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
Maduro and Flores were flown to New York pursuing the cognition Saturday and were indicted on drug-trafficking charges.
President Donald Trump said successful a quality league connected Saturday that the U.S. would "run" Venezuela "until specified clip arsenic we tin bash a safe, due and judicious transition."
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to locomotion backmost those comments connected Sunday, however, noting that Washington would usage leverage to conscionable argumentation goals. He besides did not accidental the U.S. would govern Venezuela directly.
Oil prices inched up Monday arsenic investors weighed whether Maduro's ousting would interaction lipid shipments from OPEC subordinate Venezuela, though the state produces little than 1 cardinal barrels of lipid per day.
Asia-Pacific markets traded higher overnight portion U.S. banal futures were dependable arsenic traders tracked developments successful the story.
On the information front, it's a quiescent time successful Europe with conscionable Spanish unemployment figures to look retired for.
— CNBC's Liz Napolitano and Fred Imbert contributed to this marketplace report.
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