In the last session of the week, financial markets operated in a positive tone.
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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.
Investors traded in a mixed mood ahead of this week's trade talks and the Fed's meeting.
Ahead of the outcome of the U.S. Federal Reserve meeting, investors traded in a relatively quiet mood as they watched developments around the two-day trade talks between Chinese and U.S. negotiators.
The Fed's dovish turn (see), better-than-expected earnings releases, and a positive end to U.S.-China trade negotiations in Washington (to be continued in mid-February) fueled a rally in U.S. and EM stocks.
In the last session of the week, investors traded in a cautious mood as they continued to digest the Fed's more dovish and patient tone.
In the first session of the week, optimism regarding trade negotiations between the U.S. and China (as Donald Trump said that talks are "going very well") and higher-than-expected earnings of U.S. companies improved investor sentiment.
Financial markets operated in a positive tone as the earnings season continued to show higher-than-expected results for most companies.
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.
Investors struck an upbeat tone in the first session of the week as they eye ongoing U.S.-China trade talks (high level officials are to meet on Thursday and Friday).
Ahead of high-level U.S.-China negotiations later in the week, optimism over trade talks boosted investor sentiment in yesterday's session.
Investor sentiment remained positive in yesterday's session, fuelling higher oil prices and gains in stock markets across advanced and emerging economies.
Positive market sentiment faded in yesterday's session after the release of weak economic figures.
In the last session of the week, financial markets showed an upbeat tone on the back of a better perspective on China and U.S. trade talks.
Financial markets were little changed in the first session of the week, as U.S. markets were closed because of the President's Day holiday.
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.
In a session where the inflow of macroeconomic and sentiment data was abundant in the U.S. and in the euro area, investors read it, overall, in the downside.