Financial Markets Daily Report22 octubre 2021
In yesterday's session, investors traded cautiously as they weighed signs of building inflationary pressures with positive corporate results and better-than-expected economic data releases.
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- In yesterday's session, investors traded cautiously as they weighed signs of building inflationary pressures with positive corporate results and better-than-expected economic data releases.
- On the data front, U.S. jobless claims hit a 19-month low, confirming a high degree of tightness in the labor market. In the euro area, the advance of October consumer confidence declined 0.8 points to -4.8, while Bloomberg consensus was expecting a steeper fall of -1.
- In this context, stock indices posted moderate losses in the euro area and advanced in the U.S. In fixed-income markets, yields on sovereign bonds edged up in both sides of the Atlantic and the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield reached 1.70%, a level not seen since late March.
- Today the focus will be on the October flash PMIs for the main advanced economies.