18 setembre 2020
Market risk appetite declined in yesterday's session as investors continued to digest the outcome of the Fed meeting. Stock markets declined across advanced and emerging economies while the safe-haven JPY appreciated.
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17 setembre 2020
Markets started on a positive note but risk aversion took over as the Fed signaled that the outlook is highly uncertain.
16 setembre 2020
Economic indicators favored a greater risk appetite in yesterday's session. China's industrial output rose +5.6% yoy in August while retail sales grew +0.5% and surpassed 2019 levels for the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak. Also, German investor sentiment continued to improve in September according to the ZEW index.
15 setembre 2020
Investors traded on a cautious note in the first session of the week. U.S. stocks advanced across the board (including the tech-heavy Nasdaq, which had been lagging in the last sessions) while European indices were mixed. In fixed-income markets, yields on U.S. and euro area core sovereign bonds were roughly unchanged.
14 setembre 2020
Markets ended the week in a mixed session as U.S. tech equities continued to decline and investors digested the outcome of Thursday's ECB monetary policy meeting. Global stocks were lackluster, U.S. and German sovereign yields declined and euro area peripheral spreads nudged up amid lower risk appetite.
10 setembre 2020
Investors traded in a risk-on mood in yesterday's session as tech stocks recovered from a market rout in the U.S.
09 setembre 2020
The tech sell-off in U.S. stock markets continued and spread to Asia in yesterday’s session. Risk-off market sentiment also weighed on European stocks, although they suffered relatively smaller declines.
08 setembre 2020
European stocks rose in yesterday's session while U.S. stock markets were on holiday for Labor Day.
07 setembre 2020
In Friday's session, global stocks declined and U.S. equities continued their selloff, particularly in the tech-heavy Nasdaq, as investors digested a mixed U.S. employment report.
04 setembre 2020
In yesterday’s session, investors’ sentiment worsened following concerns of overvaluations in some risky assets and mixed economic data releases. In particular, August Composite PMIs came out weaker-than-expected in most euro area countries (Spain, Italy and France) and surprised positively in Germany, the US and China.