A week-long losing streak in global stock markets ceased on Friday as better than expected earnings results outweighed a worsening of coronavirus cases in the US and Europe. In Europe, the Eurostoxx50 ended the session 1.7% higher despite new coronavirus retrictions in some cities, while the S&P 500 edged up very slightly.
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Markets continued to exhibit a mixed performance as investors weighed data releases and increasing COVID-19 infections. European stocks and sovereign yields declined after euro area industrial production had posted a lower-than-expected rebound in May (+12.4% mom and -20.9% yoy). Yet, in FX markets the euro rose towards $1.14.
On Thursday, in the last session before the Easter holidays, stock markets posted gains both in the U.S. (S&P 500 +1.4%) and in Europe (Eurostoxx 50 +0.9%). Yesterday, European stock markets were still closed but U.S. markets opened back with losses (S&P 500 -2.2%).
Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East persist, although yesterday brought some relative calm after the sharp volatility seen earlier in the week. Brent crude traded in a $80–85/barrel range before settling near $81, after President Trump said the US would protect shipping routes in the region. European natural gas prices fell back below €50/MWh. Equity markets continued to slide in Asia but recovered in the US and Europe, while the dollar stabilized around 1.16 against the euro.
In yesterday's mixed trading session, the Eurostoxx50 posted a 0.3% loss and European sovereign bond yields edged up as data showed a deterioration of consumer confidence in the euro area.
En 2025, el yen se depreció de forma sostenida frente al euro, pese a las políticas restrictivas del Banco de Japón y las políticas ligeramente expansivas del BCE. Esto se debe a varios motivos: el diferencial de tipos todavía negativo, la incertidumbre política y fiscal de Japón o la debilidad estructural del país nipón, que depende en exceso de importaciones de energía y otras materias primas. Esta dinámica se ha moderado a inicios de este año, en parte afectada por las especulaciones de una intervención coordinada entre Estados Unidos y Japón sobre el yen y el giro en el panorama político.
Tuesday saw another volatile session in the financial markets. Risk appetite rebounded from the Asian session on hopes of Trump's willingness to negotiate tariffs with some partners, which extended into the European session and the start of the US session. Asian and european stocks rose and while eurozone government bond yields rose slightly.
A quiet session on Wednesday as US markets were closed for the Juneteenth holiday. In the eurozone, government bond yields rose and peripheral spreads widened after the European Commission opened an excessive deficit procedure for France, Italy, Belgium and five other member states under the 2024 European Semester Spring Package.
In the last session of the week, inflation and GDP releases centered the stage in European trading floors. HICP inflation for October surprised on the upside in most euro area countries as well as Q3 GDP figures for Germany (+0.2 q/q instead of the expected contraction). Today aggregated figures for the euro area will be released.
New lockdowns in Europe shook investor sentiment yesterday. Volatility jumped to levels not seen since early June and stock markets tumbled across the world (the main U.S. and European indices dropped by close to 4%). Euro area core sovereign yields declined while peripheral spreads rose, and the EUR weakened below $1.18.
Activity in Spain’s real estate market is recovering from its extraordinary slump during the first lockdown. In Q3 2020, house sales and new building permits recovered much of the ground lost, a positive trend we expect to consolidate in 2021. Moreover, the impact of the crisis on house prices has been relatively moderate so far, although we expect these will continue to adjust in the latter part of 2020 and the first half of 2021. In particular, CaixaBank Research’s new house price forecasting models at the level of province, based on large amounts of information (big data) and applying machine learning techniques, predict that house prices will fall in 7 out of 10 Spanish provinces in 2021 and grow very moderately in the rest.
During the first three quarters of 2025, sterling depreciated against the euro, despite having a favorable interest rate differential, due to the resilience of the eurozone and fiscal pressures and political uncertainty in the United Kingdom. Since then, this dynamic has partially reversed, with a moderate appreciation that has become more pronounced following the conflict in the Middle East, during which sterling has outperformed most major currencies, aside from the US dollar.
The Spanish housing market is in the midst of a boom, driven by lower interest rates, the improvement in purchasing power and population growth. Demand continues to grow sharply, with foreign buyers playing a notable role, while supply is also steadily gaining traction, although it still does not compensate for the housing deficit accumulated since 2021. House prices continue to accelerate, now exceeding the peak reached in 2007 in nominal terms, and signs of overvaluation are beginning to become apparent. However, the current context differs from the one prior to the bursting of the housing bubble: rather than an oversupply, there is a serious housing deficit, and that is what primarily explains the pressure on prices; moreover, households, the construction and developer sector, and the financial system are in a strong financial position. We expect prices and sales to remain dynamic in the coming quarters, underscoring the need to increase the supply of affordable housing.
Our Sectoral Indicator reflects a widespread improvement across the various sectors in 2024, particularly in some branches of manufacturing, such as the chemicals, pharmaceutical and paper industries, which have benefited from lower energy costs and an improvement in exports. By contrast, the automotive sector has slowed sharply over the course of this year, following the recovery experienced in 2023.
European stock markets continued with the positive mood of the last session and gains were moderate and broad-based across the different European countries.
Stocks edged higher both in the U.S. and Europe, while in sovereign debt markets U.S. and German yields nudged up and Euro Area periphery spreads declined.
Stock markets slid both in the U.S. and the Euro Area while treasury and bund yields were little changed and Euro Area periphery sovereign spreads declined.
Esta vez el Ibex 35 (+1,74%) lidera las subidas de las bolsas europeas (Eurostoxx 50: +1,13%), impulsado por el fuerte repunte de los colectivos asiáticos, Nikkei (+7,7%) y Shanghái (+2,3%), tras los anuncios de medidas para impulsar el crecimiento.
La publicación el viernes de un dato de creación de empleo en EE. UU. peor de lo esperado (y la revisión a la baja del dato de agosto) puso freno a una semana en positivo en la que las bolsas europeas terminaron cerrando con signos mixtos (Ibex: 35 +0,9%, Eurostoxx: -0,8%).
Stock markets rose in the U.S. but experienced widespread declines in Europe. In fixed-income markets, U.S. sovereign yields ticked up and European yields remained stable (with the exception of Portugal's).