Country: NL | Published: 2026-09-18
Dutch markets ride a calmer global tape, with oil retreating for a third day and stocks broadly higher, easing some of the inflation pressure that had weighed on European sentiment
Dutch markets ride a calmer global tape, with oil retreating for a third day and stocks broadly higher, easing some of the inflation pressure that had weighed on European sentiment. At home, the picture is more mixed: a fresh grid-congestion warning shows nearly half of newly built homes lack available power-grid capacity, a real constraint for a gas-reliant, electrifying economy still digesting record petrol prices. Chip-related names remain the bright spot, with AI chip demand still cited as a tailwind for the country's major semiconductor holding.