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Investor sentiment remained positive in yesterday's session, fuelling higher oil prices and gains in stock markets across advanced and emerging economies.

Positive market sentiment faded in yesterday's session after the release of weak economic figures.

In the last session of the week, financial markets showed an upbeat tone on the back of a better perspective on China and U.S. trade talks.

Financial markets were little changed in the first session of the week, as U.S. markets were closed because of the President's Day holiday.

Financial markets remained in a cautious mood as the tariff increase truce approaches its end (currently set to end on March 1st) and investors awaited for the last Fed and ECB's meeting minutes.

While analysts await for the U.S. and China trade talks to resume next week, financial markets received the last Fed's meeting minutes without big movements.

In a session where the inflow of macroeconomic and sentiment data was abundant in the U.S. and in the euro area, investors read it, overall, in the downside.

In the last session of the week, stocks rallied across the board amid positive signs from U.S.-China trade negotiations.

Financial markets started the week in a positive mood after U.S. President Donald Trump postponed the date for increasing tariffs on Chinese imports.

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 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.

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%.

Stocks declined across the board on Friday as downbeat activity figures in the U.S. (nonfarm payroll employment +20,000 in February after +311,000 in January) and China (export growth dropped from 9.1% yoy in January to -20.7% in February) added to the OECD and the ECB's downgraded macroeconomic projections earlier in the week.

Markets set off on a positive mood as they started to recover from last week's losses and stocks rose across the board.

Investors traded cautiously in a session in which U.S. stocks advanced moderately as roughly stable inflation figures support the Fed's patient approach to monetary policy.

Advanced-economy stocks rose across the board as investors found support on positive indicators both in the U.S. (a solid +0.8% mom increase in capital goods orders in January and muted price pressures according to the producer price index, which rose +0.1% mom in February) and the Eurozone (industrial production +1.4% mom in January).