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Vaccine hopes keep stocks ahead despite spiking infections

November 17, 2020
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AFP – Most stock markets in the US and Europe ended last week on an upbeat note on Friday as Coronavirus vaccine hopes outweighed worries over spiking infections in Europe and the United States, dealers said.

Asian bourses, however, took a hit as traders feared that another wave of COVID-19 lockdown measures will throw a shaky economic recovery off course.

In New York, the Dow index ended up 1.4 percent while the S&P 500 finished at a record high after making its own 1.4 percent gain. Most European markets also closed slightly higher.

London bucked the trend with the FTSE 100 index down by 0.4 percent on the back of a stronger pound, which hits share prices of multinational companies that earn their vast sums in US dollars.

Sterling climbed on growing EU trade deal hopes after reports that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s top adviser and Brexit mastermind Dominic Cummings will leave later this year.

That development “has raised speculation that the balance has tilted a little towards… a deal [rather] than no deal,” said Fawad Razaqzada, market analyst with ThinkMarkets.

Despite the worrying trajectory of Coronavirus infections in key economies, analysts say traders are taking heart from steady progress towards finding a vaccine.

US pharma giant Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech last Monday revealed that their candidate for a COVID-19 vaccine had been 90 percent effective.

Other companies working on vaccines also were believed to be close to announcing good news as well.

“The pandemic might not have the same negative impact on equities that it used to, seeing as there has been great progress made with respect to the drug that Pfizer and BioNTech are developing,” said CMC Markets analyst David Madden.

But Oanda analyst Edward Moya noted that as the week wore on, investors nonetheless reduced “bullish bets, as virus lockdown efforts will likely remain in place throughout the holidays.”

Meanwhile, markets in Hong Kong and Shanghai were hit by news that US President Donald Trump had signed an order banning investments in Chinese firms that could help the country’s military and security apparatus.

The executive order, which takes effect on Jan 11, said Beijing obliges private firms to support these activities and through capital markets “exploits United States investors to finance the development and modernisation of its military”.

This article was first published in Khmer Times. All contents and images are copyright to their respective owners and sources.

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