Financial Markets Daily Report

Search

U.S.-China trade tensions (most recently, China's threat to restrict exports of rare earths, as pointed in yesterday's comment).

Escalating tensions between the U.S. and China led to higher financial volatility and a shift from risky assets to safe bonds in yesterday's session.

With U.S. markets closed for the Memorial Day holiday, European stocks advanced moderately at the start of the week as investors digested the results of the weekend's European Parliament election.

Markets closed a volatile week on a relatively quiet note. Stocks rose moderately across advanced and emerging economies and U.S. and German sovereign yields were stable around their year-lows.

In yesterday's session a risk-off mood dominated investor sentiment. Stock indices declined across the globe and the price of safe assets (such as U.S. Treasuries, Japanese yen, Swiss franc and gold) rose.

In yesterday's session, investors focused on brexit news, the release of the last Fed meeting minutes and trade tensions between the U.S. and China.

Investor sentiment improved mildly as news coming from the trade tensions between the U.S. and China were slightly conciliatory.

Stock indices in advanced economies tumbled as the Donald Trump administration put the Chinese telecom Huawei in the blacklist that could forbid it from doing business with U.S. companies.

Stocks fell across the board in the last session of the week.

Stocks rose across advanced economies as the rebound in risk assets from the trade-driven sell-off continued.

Easing trade tensions between the U.S. and some of its main trade partners improved investor sentiment.

Investor sentiment improved in yesterday's session after President Trump signaled that the U.S. and China will continue to negotiate a trade deal.