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Strong rebound in sovereign yields especially for the Treasury yields that reached the highest level in two month mainly on the announcement of Donald Trump's tax-cut plan.

International investors remained cautious with no further progress in equity markets and stability for the sovereign yields after the geopolitical tensions intensified again at the beginning of the week.

Equities and sovereign yields decreased slightly in most of the developed countries due to a spike of risk aversion on the renewed tensions between the US and North Korea.

Risk-off sentiment took over yesterday's session. Oil and gas surged amid escalating tensions in the Middle East (eg., the Houthis attacked two Saudi Arabian tankers in the Red Sea), sending global stocks lower and triggering higher sovereign yields across the board. In FX markets, the U.S. dollar index strengthened towards a one-month high.

Investor sentiment was mixed in yesterday's session. Energy prices crept up as the U.S. and Iran continued to exchange fire and Brent oil briefly topped $95. Stocks rose across Europe but the U.S. S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed lower amid a mixed performance of tech stocks and ahead of key Q2 earnings releases.

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.

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.

Markets ended the week on a cautious note, driven by a deterioration in investor sentiment towards the Middle East conflict and a selloff in tech stocks. Brent oil prices rose nearly 5% to close above $88 per barrel, and TTF gas surged towards €60 as the U.S. and Iran stepped up attacks across the Gulf.

Market sentiment remained downbeat due to persistent geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and continued weakness in AI-related market segments. In commodities, energy prices lacked clear direction, with Brent edging lower and TTF prices rising. The dollar strengthened modestly against the euro, on expectations of a resilient U.S. economy.

Softer-than-expected US inflation data drove a decline in Treasury yields, while equity markets showed a mixed performance across the Atlantic. US June PPI came in below expectations, following the previous day’s soft CPI, while Fed officials struck a hawkish tone but signalled patience, prompting a repricing of Fed rate expectations, with the probability of an additional hike declining to around 40%. US Treasury yields declined, with a flattening of the curve led by the short end.

In yesterday’s session, investors traded cautiously ahead of today’s ECB monetary policy meeting, where we expect official interest rates to remain unchanged (depo and refi at 4.00 and 4.50%, respectively) and a continuation of the data dependency approach.

In yesterday’s session monetary policy continued to take center stage in financial markets. Investors positioned themselves ahead of today’s US Federal Reserve meeting (where no change in interest rates is expected and the focus will be placed on the dot plot) and weighed comments from ECB officials.

Markets kicked off the week with a tranquil session ahead of a week full of central bank meetings, starting with the Bank of Japan today, and continuing with the Fed and the BoE later on. In this context, sovereign bond yields slightly rose across the board, while equities advanced modestly in the US led by tech stocks, and were mixed in the euro area.

In the last session of the week, yields on sovereign bonds continued to increase, modestly, as investors’ expectations on official interest rates continued to be revised to the upside. In particular the probability of observing the US Federal Reserve cutting rates in June or earlier stands currently at 63% (96% earlier in the month).

Macro data releases in the US yesterday gave investors mixed signals about the state of the economy. Higher-than expected producer price index (1.6% yoy vs 1.2% expected) and lower-than-expected retail sales (0.0% vs 0.4% expected) warned about sticky inflation and an economic slowdown, but unemployment benefit requests surprised to downside.

Central bank communication preparing the ground to start easing the monetary policy stance soon was the main driver in yesterday’s session. In the euro area, the ECB kept interest rates unchanged and reinforced the data dependency approach, assuring that there is still some more progress to be done in domestic inflation.

In the last session of the week, investors traded with a moderately optimistic tone amid economic data releases that offered mixed signals on the monetary policy path ahead. On the one hand, the US ISM manufacturing index fell from 49.1 to 47.8 (49.5 expected), with employment and new orders subcomponents decreasing.

Yesterday’s session in financial markets was a quiet one without any major macroeconomic data releases and with the Q4 2023 corporate earnings season nearing its end. All eyes remain attentive to today’s release of January’s US PCE deflator, the Fed’s favored inflation gauge, and some euro area countries’ CPI.

US January PCE deflator came in line with expectations (2.4% yoy down from 2.6% the previous month), and euro area countries’ CPI did not surprise either (Germany: 2.5% yoy, France: 2.9% yoy, Spain: 2.8% yoy), boosting markets’ expectations of a first interest rate cut starting in June and July.

The future path of central bank official interest rates continued to be the main driver in financial markets, as investors reacted to the US Federal reserve meeting and to several ECB members’ speeches.