The dovish hike delivered by the Federal Reserve and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen comments, signaling that regulators are not considering a broad expansion of deposit insurance, centered the stage in financial markets.
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In yesterday's session, investors traded cautiously as they awaited for today's key US employment report for the month of August. Also, in the euro area a mixed inflation HICP was released, with all components except energy exhibiting a disinflationary path in August.
Investors traded with a risk-on mood on Wednesday. The main drivers were a rally in tech stocks, boosted by the restructuring plans from China’s Alibaba Group, as well as receding fears of contagion from the banking turmoil.
Another session dominated by risk aversion, as investors continued to digest the hawkish rhetoric from central banks in major advanced economies and mixed signals from the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Investors started the week trading with a risk-off sentiment, still digesting the hawkish comments from the US Federal Reserve and ahead for March’s US CPI inflation data, to be released today.
Investors started the week with no clear direction, as traders digested mixed signals from the GDP data in China and corporate results in the US. Financial markets were closed across Europe, Australia and Hong Kong.
Financial markets started the week with mixed results, as investors weighted out positive corporate earnings results with downward revisions in the growth economic outlook and a new round of hawkish commentary by some Fed officials (Charles Evans from the Chicago Fed and James Bullard from St. Louis).
Investors started the week trading with optimism due to positive signs on the trade talks between the U.S. and China.
Eurozone sovereign bond yields remained broadly flat In Thursday's session as investors awaited the Jackson Hole meeting, which started last night with mixed comments from ECB officials. Centeno advised caution on further hikes, as downside risks for the economy are materializing, while Nagel said it's 'much too early' for a pause.
Markets started the week on a cautious mood as concerns that the U.S. and China are struggling to close the first phase of a trade deal weighed on sentiment.
Brent oil and TTF gas whipsawed and stock markets were mixed as hostilities in the Middle East continued to weigh on investor sentiment. Tech equities steadied after last week's rout, but both the S&P 500 and the Eurostoxx closed moderately lower.
Global markets traded on a risk-on note in yesterday's session. Stocks rallied across advanced and emerging economies, supported by a recovery in semiconductor shares. The improvement in investor sentiment defied higher energy prices in commodity markets, as the price of Brent crude rose above $90 per barrel amid ongoing tensions in the Middle East.
Investors ended the week in a favorable mood and stocks rose across the board on Friday. U.S. stocks also closed higher despite signals that the labor market is losing steam (non-farm payrolls increased by 245k in November vs 610k in October) as investors focused on prospects of a new fiscal package.
As investors await the Jackson Hole conference for some guidance on monetary policy, European sovereign bond yields fell across the board in Tuesday's session. Meanwhile US short-term references posted gains, boosted by Fed's Barkin hawkish remarks on how the current strong economy would allow for higher rates should inflation pick up.
Yesterday's trading session was dominated by news that Pfizer had halved the amount of Covid-19 vaccines that it hoped to distribute in 2021 due to supply chain issues, which provoked a late-afternoon sell-off in the S&P 500 which closed 0.1% lower on the day.
Investors in European markets exhibited a positive mood, and the main euro area stock market indices advanced by around 1.0 percent in yesterday's session (with the exception of the Portuguese PSI20, which remained flat).
On Friday, emerging-market (EM) and European stocks rallied (with the exception of the Portuguese PSI20, which declined by -0.5 percent), while U.S. indices moderated their gains in late selling.
Markets started the week cautiously as investors moderated their hopes about the U.S.-China preliminary deal.
Investors traded cautiously in yesterday's session as they wait for clearer signals that the U.S. and China will close the first phase of a trade deal.
Global stock markets started the week on the up as investors turned more optimistic on a phase-one trade deal between China and the U.S.