Stock markets continued to rise in developed countries with increases around 1% amid optimism on corporate earnings.
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As expected, the Governing Council of the ECB did not introduce changes in its monetary policy stance and maintained its pledge to move slowly in removing stimulus, repeating that interest rates are expected to remain at present levels until well past the end of net asset purchases.
Volatility surged and global stock sell-off deepened yesterday with declines around 4% in the U.S. stock markets while in Europe decreases were more moderate. In sovereign bond markets, increased appetite for safe assets resulted into significant decreases in yields.
Global stock markets were mixed yesterday and investors continued to adopt a cautious stance as they are still evaluating the outlook for central bank policy normalization and the impact it could have on interest rates.
U.S. stocks rallied at the end of the week while European stocks posted moderate gains.
Stock markets declined in the U.S. while experiencing more moderate losses in Europe.
Stock markets were mixed throughout the session and closed with moderate losses both in the U.S. and Europe.
Most of the global stock markets indices registered gains on Thursday even if increases were more moderate in Europe.
In the last session of the week, U.S. stock markets nudged down after European stocks had closed the session with moderate gains.
U.S. stock markets declined for the first time in the week while European stocks were mixed, with small losses in Germany, and moderate gains in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
Minutes of the Federal Reserve's May 1-2 meeting showed officials said the economic outlook warranted another interest-rate hike "soon".
Advanced financial markets started the week in an optimistic mood. Stock market indices advanced moderately both in the U.S. and Europe (except for the Italian MIB).
As it was broadly expected, Federal Reserve officials decided to raise interest rates for the second time this year.
Global stock markets performed positively yesterday with modest increases in the S&P 500 and in the main European indices, except for the Portuguese and the French indices that closed with moderate losses.
Yesterday European assets suffered another risk-off episode (more moderated than the experienced in late May) after two euro skeptic economists from League were appointed as heads of economic committees of the Italian Senate.
Global stock markets stabilized after the sell-off experienced on Monday. In the U.S., the main indices registered slight increases while in Europe stocks were mixed, with peripheral indices experiencing moderate advances and core indices remaining stable or suffering slight declines.
On Friday, emerging-market (EM) and European stocks rallied (with the exception of the Portuguese PSI20, which declined by -0.5 percent), while U.S. indices moderated their gains in late selling.
Global stock markets performed positively and the main indices registered moderate gains, with the exception of the IBEX 35 and the Turkish BIST 100, which lost 0.4% and 3.0% respectively.
Markets ended the week with a relatively quiet session. The main U.S. and euro area stock market indices posted moderate gains, but in Spain and Portugal stocks suffered a small decline.
Stock markets declined moderately in a session with no major economic releases.