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Market Summary by AFORTI: Microsoft's failure and Joe Biden's refusal to run for the Center of Attention

22 July 2024

Macroeconomic Situation

The third week of July brought a number of important developments that affected global equity and financial markets. Data on inflation, interest rates and economic indicators from the world's largest economies were key for investors. The most important, however, were the global Microsoft outage and rumours of Joe Biden's resignation from seeking re-election in the autumn US elections confirmed on Sunday.


Europe

- Inflation in the euro area: Inflation in the euro area remains above the inflation target, which may influence future European Central Bank (ECB) monetary policy decisions. As expected, inflation continues to remain slightly above the inflation target (of 2%) and, in m/m terms, prices rose by 0.2%, which was also in line with forecasts. Eurozone CPI inflation value for June 2.5%

- UK: inflation in the UK exceeded expectations, which may put additional pressure on the Bank of England in terms of interest rate policy. Both the overall consumer price index (CPI) maintained the same y/y growth rate as in May (+2%) and core inflation remained at the same level as in May (+3.5% y/y). 

- Poland: the final CPI report from Poland was in line with the first reading, which did not bring any major surprises. Poland's core inflation came in below expectations, which may ease pressure on the National Bank of Poland (NBP) in the context of interest rate rises.

- ECB: The ECB left interest rates unchanged, indicating a cautious approach to monetary policy in the face of current economic data. 

- FED: A September interest rate cut by the Fed seems a foregone conclusion, given the latest inflation data and comments from central bank officials.

- US retail sales: US retail sales data came in above expectations, indicating strong consumption and may influence the Fed's decisions on future monetary policy steps.

- Jerome Powell: Jerome Powell's speech suggested that a hard landing of the US economy is an unlikely scenario, which may give investors confidence in US economic stability. 

- Microsoft failure: The failure of Microsoft's network services disrupted many sectors of the economy, affecting short-term volatility in technology markets.

- Biden resignation: Joe Biden's resignation from the presidential race caused markets to react, including a rise in Bitcoin prices, indicating growing investor interest in digital assets.

Currency market

The zloty weakened between 15 and 19 July. The EUR/PLN exchange rate oscillated in a range of 4.25-4.29, reaching 4.30 at times, and the USD/PLN in a range of 3.89-3.94. 

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Oil and gold market

Brent crude oil prices from 15-19 July remained in the USD 85.27-83.06 per barrel range, indicating a market decline. Gold prices fell slightly from USD 2,415 to USD 2,405 per ounce.

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Stock market

The WIG fell by around 2,700 points between 15 and 19 July, ending the session at 85,852 points with a weekly turnover of 6,026,395,378. Investors continue to monitor the macroeconomic situation and central bank decisions that may influence further movements of the index. It was a week of declines on the WSE.

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Summary

The third week of July 2024 brought mixed signals from the world's major economies. Stabilising inflation in the Eurozone and the UK contrasted with solid retail sales data in the US. Monetary policy remains cautious in both Europe and the US, indicating a longer-term approach to economic stabilisation.


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