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Financial markets ended the day with mixed results, with investors weighting in a batch of positive earnings reports with rising inflation data and weak signals from the US labour market.

Investors continued to trade with a positive mood on Tuesday, with solid corporate earnings reports outweighing hawkish signals from central bankers and higher-than-expected inflation prints.

Financial markets started the week with a risk-on session, as investors shifted their focus to corporate earnings and economic indicators, taking a breath from the prospect of monetary policy tightening by the major central banks.

Financial markets closed last week with mixed results, with equity prices falling across Europe and EMs but recording a late-session rally in the US, as investors weighed the prospect of a more aggressive withdrawal of monetary policy stimulus by the Fed with upbeat earnings reports from some key US tech firms (e.g. Apple).

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.