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U.S. stocks advanced moderately on the back of a better-than-expected start to the earnings season.

Markets were driven by opposing signals about trade tensions in yesterday's session. European stocks were mixed, EM equities closed flat and U.S. stocks rose in a late-session rally.

Easing tensions between China and U.S. improved investors' mood and equities increased across the globe, oil surged and interest rates on safe assets edged up.

In the first session of the week, euro area stock indices edged down amid concerns of lower global economic growth in the following quarters.

Investors operated with a pessimistic tone as they continued to digest the IMF's downward revisions to global growth forecasts.

Trade tensions between China and the U.S., the extension of the U.S. government shutdown and positive surprises in the earnings season determined yesterday investor's mood.

Global investors operated in a positive mood as yesterday's earnings releases surprised on the upside.

In the last session of the week, financial markets operated in a positive tone.

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.