The CSI 300 finished the year with a 36% gain, while the Hang Seng returned 9.1% in 2019.ICBC Global Financial Market Daily Review - January 5, 2017ġ. Gaining 0.4%, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Indexįell 0.5%. In Asia overnight Monday, stocks closed mixed, with China’s CSI 300
The Stoxx Europe 600Ĭlosed down 0.08% at 415.84, but closed out the year with a gain of 23.2%.
In Europe, stocks ended the day mostly lower. dollar fell 0.4% relative to a basket of its major trading partners, according to the ICE US Dollar index Gold futures Tuesday ended 2019 at the highest level since late September, after a strong rally for the precious metal produced the largest return in nearly a decade, despite a rally in equity indexes also. On the New York Mercantile Exchange fell 62 cents, or 1%, to end at $61.06 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate crude for February delivery In commodities markets, oil futures slumped in the final trading session of the year Tuesday, but logged the biggest yearly gains for both major crude benchmarks in three years.
See also: These 2 stocks dominated S&P 500 returns in 2019 - and the decade How are other markets trading?Ģ.917% gained close at 1.909% Tuesday, while marking the largest one-year yield decline for benchmark government paper since December 2014, according to Dow Jones Market Data. They are the best-performing Dow stocks of the year and accounted for about 15% of the S&P 500’s overall gains for 2019. However, the two stocks have led market higher in 2019, rallying 85.3% and 54.7%, respectively. Was off 0.8% after Turkish Airlines said it had agreed a compensation deal with the plane maker over the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX following two fatal crashes. Uber shares finished the session virtually unchanged.Ĭlosed off 9.8% Tuesday following a Wall Street Journal report late Monday that the energy services company was in talks with lenders to file for bankruptcy.
Shares rose 1.3% Tuesday.Īnd Postmates, a food delivery startup, filed a lawsuit in federal court late Monday, seeking an injunction to block California State’s new law that forces these companies to classify their drivers as full-time employees, rather than contractors. Was in focus after Benchmark analyst Ruben Roy upgraded the stock to ‘buy,’ and raised his price target on the stock to $275 from $240 - 17% above its Monday closing price of $232.32. See also: Why a missing Santa Claus rally could spell bad news for stocks in 2020 Which stocks are in focus? And Q4 2019’s rally of 8% on the S&P is purely based off the expectation that the US/global economy can turn more like a speedboat than a battleship.” Wall Street estimates for Q1 and Q2 2020 are way too high. We have not seen any earnings growth in 4 quarters. Corporate debt levels are at record highs. Looking ahead, “by any objective measure US large-cap stocks start 2020 on perilous footing,” Datatrek’s Nicholas Colas wrote in a note. The Conference Board’s index of consumer confidence fell slightly to 126.5 in December, from a revised reading of 126.8 in November. economic news, the October Case-Shiller home price index showed home prices rising by 3.3% in 20 major metropolitan areas across the U.S., up from a 3.2% rise in September. “The reason we’re having an atypical end of the year is because we’ve had such an atypical run leading up to it.” “There’s a lot of profit taking going on, as well as tax-loss harvesting,” Keith Buchanan, portfolio manager at Globalt Investments told MarketWatch. Analysts also pointed to year-end dynamics, along with the superlative returns already seen as reasons for weakness in recent days.