On Monday, markets ended the year with a quiet session in which volatility edged lower and most stock market indices finished the session higher.
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Gains eased in the last session of the week, stocks finished down slightly on Friday and volatility declined.
Investors traded in a positive mood after Chinese officials had stated early in the morning that the Chinese government will continue to cut taxes in order to support its slowing economy.
U.S. stocks advanced moderately on the back of a better-than-expected start to the earnings season.
Investors operated with a pessimistic tone as they continued to digest the IMF's downward revisions to global growth forecasts.
In the last session of the week, financial markets operated in a positive tone.
Markets traded in a cautious mood as concerns about global growth (some companies blamed slowing global growth for disappointing results) and trade tensions (U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges against Huawei and its CFO while China asked the WTO to rule on its complain about U.S. tariffs) came back to the fore.
As investors awaited for more clues on the evolution of trade negotiations between the U.S. and China, financial markets remained in a low volatility environment.
The European Commission's (EC) downward revision of economic growth forecast for the euro area worsened investor sentiment.
Concerns about trade tensions and global growth crept back into markets in the last session of the week.
Financial markets remained in a cautious mood as the tariff increase truce approaches its end (currently set to end on March 1st) and investors awaited for the last Fed and ECB's meeting minutes.
While analysts await for the U.S. and China trade talks to resume next week, financial markets received the last Fed's meeting minutes without big movements.
Financial markets started the week in a positive mood after U.S. President Donald Trump postponed the date for increasing tariffs on Chinese imports.
Financial markets were relatively quiet as investors waited for the Fed Chairman's testimony to the Senate.
Stocks drifted lower after the top U.S. trade negotiator pushed back expectations for a deal that addresses the underlying trade tensions with China.
In the last session of the week, volatility in financial markets remained at very low levels and gains in advanced economies' stock indices were broad-based.
Investors operated in a cautious mood as they await for concrete news on the US - China trade negotiations and tomorrow's ECB press conference.
In yesterday's session, financial markets awaited cautiously for the ECB monetary policy statement and Draghi's press conference, where the ECB President explained that growth projections for this year were revised 0.6 pp downwards to 1.1%.
Markets set off on a positive mood as they started to recover from last week's losses and stocks rose across the board.
European stocks rose across the board as investors started the session in a positive mood.