Spreadex Market Update

Global markets continued to decline



Global markets continued to decline today as financial stocks weighed heavily on investors’ sentiment. A shock warning by RSA that severe weather in Europe and Canada would result in investors’ full year returns bearing the brunt as well as analysts’ squashing bid speculation surrounding RSA resulted in early losses for the insurance giant. Furthermore, banks also added to the selloff as traders feared that increased regulation would detriment banks’ ability to generate sufficient returns for investors.

Many traders are also betting that the European Central Bank will announce a further interest rate cut in December and hence the slight support in equities as well as the euro hitting a six-week low. Traders are arguing that a falling inflation rate as well as uncertainties concerning the Eurozone area as a whole is enough of an impetus for policy officials to do more to support struggling nations.

However, there is always the argument that more needs to be done from a structural level as there does come a point where loosening measures to pump more liquidity into the markets only goes so far.

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