India, Jan. 28 -- European stocks are likely to open on a positive note Tuesday as focus shifts to tech earnings and central bank meetings.
Chip-machine maker ASML, Meta Platforms and Microsoft will unveil their quarterly results and forecasts on Wednesday, while Apple and IBM will follow suit on Thursday. The U.S. Federal Reserve is widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, but traders are likely to pay close attention to the accompanying statement for clues about the outlook for rates.
To justify further loosening, the Fed needs evidence of economic weakness and more subdued inflation prints.
Most economists expect the U.S. central bank to resume cutting rates only sometime in the first half of the year.
The Euro...