Risk aversion continued to increase at the start of the week.
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Investors traded cautiously in yesterday's session. Uneasiness around U.S.-China relations and the release of economic indicators and forecasts affected by the COVID-19 sent global stocks lower while safe-haven currencies rose.
A better-than-expected U.S. employment report for May boosted investor sentiment in the last session of the week.
Markets were mixed in the last session of the week as investors looked for direction.
Investors started the week on a positive note. Volatility declined and stocks rose across Europe, the U.S. and Latin America.
Volatility nudged down in the first session of Q3 2020. U.S. stocks advanced moderately as economic indicators recovered (ISM manufacturing at 52.6 points in June, its first reading above the 50-threshold since early 2020). Elsewhere, stocks declined in Europe and gained in EM.
In yesterday's session, caution returned to financial markets. Investors' concerns over the economic growth were fuelled by the European Commission Summer economic projections, which forecast a sharpest fall this year and a slower recovery, and Fed members' downbeat comments.
In yesterday's session, investors traded with a risk-off mood due to increased concerns over the speed of the economic recovery as covid-19 cases continue to surge.
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Positive developments around a potential COVID-19 vaccine fueled a risk-on mood in yesterday's session. Stocks rose across advanced and emerging economies and, in the U.S., shares of Moderna - a company working on a vaccine - surged close to 7% after a small-scale study showed its experimental vaccine produced high levels of antibodies.
In the first session of the week, investor sentiment improved as promising trial results from a potential COVID-19 vaccine renewed investor's hopes.
Financial markets performed poorly in yesterday's session amid worse-than-expected US labor market data (initial unemployment claims rose last week for the first time since late March) and rising tensions between the US and China.
During a busy day for economic data releases, investors digested the record-low GDP growth figures in the US and Germany and demand for safe-haven assets rose.
In August, investors have been trading on a cautiously positive note –weighing the recovery in activity indicators against ongoing and renewed coronavirus outbreaks across advanced and emerging economies. In this context, somewhat lower risk aversion has eased pressures on safe-haven assets and favored the performance of risky assets.
Investors started the week on a positive note amid optimism over medical advances against the coronavirus. Volatility nudged down and stock markets rose across advanced and emerging economies.
Markets were mixed in yesterday's session as the Fed and its Chairman Jerome Powell announced a change to the longer-run goals and monetary policy strategy. Volatility rose and stocks declined moderately across AEs and EMs.
In a session with mixed economic data, investors traded cautiously in Europe while US assets strengthened further.
In Friday's session, global stocks declined and U.S. equities continued their selloff, particularly in the tech-heavy Nasdaq, as investors digested a mixed U.S. employment report.
The tech sell-off in U.S. stock markets continued and spread to Asia in yesterday’s session. Risk-off market sentiment also weighed on European stocks, although they suffered relatively smaller declines.