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Financial markets started the week recovering from previous session's losses and advanced-economy stock indices managed to register gains.

In fixed-income markets, yields on advanced economies' sovereign bonds decreased.

Stocks surged back into positive territory as U.S. indices benefited from positive earnings results in the technology sector. In emerging economies, stocks declined in Asia (where Thursday's trading session was dragged by late-Wednesday's risk-off mood) and advanced in Latin America.

Yesterday, the sell-off in global stocks accelerated as investors traded in a risk-off mood.

Investors exhibited a risk-off mood in yesterday's session as volatility ticked up and stocks declined worldwide.

Investors started the week in a mixed mood and stock markets declined across the main advanced economies.

In the last session of the week, investors traded cautiously and stocks closed flat or with moderate losses.

In yesterday's session, financial markets operated in a risk-off scenario, partly fueled in Europe by the European Commission's response to the Italian budget, which hints the possibility of a rejection from Brussels.

In yesterday's session, political uncertainty weighted on European financial markets, while the September's Fed meeting minutes focused the attention in the U.S.

Global financial markets were in a positive mood in yesterday's session.

Advanced economies' stock markets were mixed in the first session of the week.

In the last session of the week, the mood was disparate in both sides of the Atlantic. In Europe, losses in the main stock markets were moderate and broad-based, while in the U.S., the S&P 500 bounced back from the losses registered on previous days.