Financial Markets Daily Report

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Investor sentiment remained positive in yesterday's session, fuelling higher oil prices and gains in stock markets across advanced and emerging economies.

Ahead of high-level U.S.-China negotiations later in the week, optimism over trade talks boosted investor sentiment in yesterday's session.

Investors struck an upbeat tone in the first session of the week as they eye ongoing U.S.-China trade talks (high level officials are to meet on Thursday and Friday).

Concerns about trade tensions and global growth crept back into markets in the last session of the week.

The European Commission's (EC) downward revision of economic growth forecast for the euro area worsened investor sentiment.

As investors awaited for more clues on the evolution of trade negotiations between the U.S. and China, financial markets remained in a low volatility environment.

Financial markets operated in a positive tone as the earnings season continued to show higher-than-expected results for most companies.

In the first session of the week, optimism regarding trade negotiations between the U.S. and China (as Donald Trump said that talks are "going very well") and higher-than-expected earnings of U.S. companies improved investor sentiment.

In the last session of the week, investors traded in a cautious mood as they continued to digest the Fed's more dovish and patient tone.

Ahead of the outcome of the U.S. Federal Reserve meeting, investors traded in a relatively quiet mood as they watched developments around the two-day trade talks between Chinese and U.S. negotiators.

Investors traded in a mixed mood ahead of this week's trade talks and the Fed's meeting.