Financial Markets Daily Report

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In yesterday’s session investors continued to digest the outcome of the Fed’s meeting and received positively the US 4Q GDP data (up by 1.7% qoq).

During a volatile session, the risk-on mood recorded during the first hours of trading was eclipsed by a hawkish stance during the first Federal Reserve meeting of the year.

In yesterday's session, financial markets remained volatile amid rising geopolitical tensions around Ukraine. In addition, the new IMF macroeconomic forecasts did not have a positive impact on investors' sentiment as they showed a lower growth of global GDP for 2022 (from 4.9% to 4.4%), with a broad-based revision across the main economies.

Investors started the week with a pronounced risk-off mood and demand for safe assets rose amid rising geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine. In stock markets, volatility went up and losses were broad-based across the board, although dip buyers pushed US indices back to positive territory late in the session.

Financial markets closed last week with a sell-off session where investors showed a preference for safe-haven assets.

Another volatile session with mixed results on Thursday, with the focus still on the potential impact of tighter monetary policy on rate-sensitive sectors. Investors are also monitoring the Q4 earnings results.

Investors traded cautiously on Wednesday, on the back of mixed results from the Q4 corporate earnings season and with the focus still on expectations about higher interest rates across financial markets.

On Tuesday investors traded with a risk-off mood as they took position ahead of the release of key reports for the Q4 earning season this week and the first monetary policy meeting by the Fed on 25-26 January.

Financial markets recorded a positive start of the week, supported by the better-than-expected Q4 GDP print in China (4% y/y) and positive expectations for the corporate earnings season later this week.

Investors traded cautiously in the last session of the week, still digesting the more hawkish shift by the major central banks and with a weaker-than-expected start of the Q4 earning seasons for US banks. Monthly data also showed a decline in retail sales (-1.9% m/m) and industrial production (-0.1% m/m) in the US in December.

In yesterday's session, the economic impact of the omicron variant together with investors' expectation for central banks were the main drivers in financial markets.

Investors traded cautiously on Wednesday, digesting the December inflation print in the US, which showed headline inflation rising to 7.0%, highest since June 1982, and core inflation increasing by 0.6 pp to 5.5% yoy. Even if in line with consensus expectations, these figures add pressure to the Fed to start hiking interest rates as soon as in March.