U.S. and European stocks rose amid a broad rally in technology shares, while emerging-market equities edged moderately higher both in Asia and Latin America.
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Stock markets in advanced economies experienced gains across all trading floors in a very quiet session.
Financial markets were relatively quiet as investors waited for the Fed Chairman's testimony to the Senate.
Stocks drifted lower after the top U.S. trade negotiator pushed back expectations for a deal that addresses the underlying trade tensions with China.
Stocks were mixed in yesterday's session as investors digested several economic releases and the U.S. formally suspended the tariff increase on Chinese goods "until further notice" (as had already been announced by Trump).
In the last session of the week, volatility in financial markets remained at very low levels and gains in advanced economies' stock indices were broad-based.
Financial markets exhibited a pessimistic mood as stock markets suffered a broad decline across advanced and emerging economies.
During the first day of the week, global stock marketsregistered more moderated losses than on Friday.
The Turkish lira plummeted on Friday and reached almost 7 lira per dollars as tensions intensified with the U.S. following the imposition of sanctions
Stock markets in advanced economies closed the trading session with no major changes.
Geopolitical events (the diplomatictensions between Canada and Saudi Arabia and the impositions of sanctions to Russia from the U.S.) had a muted effect on advancedeconomies' stock markets. In Europe, the mainstock indices experienced moderate losses, except in Portugal and in the U.K., while the S&P 500 remained unchanged. Instead, trade tensions between China and the U.S. weighted on Chinese equity indices.
Financial markets started the week with less optimism than in the previous sessions, despite the positive comments around the U.S. - China trade negotiations.
Investors operated in a cautious mood as they await for concrete news on the US - China trade negotiations and tomorrow's ECB press conference.
Investor sentiment improved mildly as news coming from the trade tensions between the U.S. and China were slightly conciliatory.
European stock markets continued with the positive mood of the last session and gains were moderate and broad-based across the different European countries.
In yesterday's session, financial markets awaited cautiously for the ECB monetary policy statement and Draghi's press conference, where the ECB President explained that growth projections for this year were revised 0.6 pp downwards to 1.1%.
Stock indices in advanced economies edged down, except for the Portuguese PSI 20 which rose by 0.2%.
European stock markets registered broad-based gains, being the Italian FTSE MIB the most benefited index.
U.S. stock markets performed positively following news of the earnings’ season and the S&P 500 gained 0.5%.
Global stock markets were mixed in a session where the S&P 500 advanced 0.4%, driven by good news in the earnings season, and the main European indices remained broadly flat.