Tuesday, April 19, Morning Global Market Roundup: Stocks rise as oil prices shrug off Doha failure
By Nigel Stephenson
Reuters
April 19, 2016
European shares hit three-month highs on Tuesday following gains on Asian bourses as a rise in oil prices, partly due to a workers' strike in Kuwait, boosting investors' appetite to take on risk.
Oil prices had already shrugged off the weekend failure of producers to agree to freeze output at a meeting in Doha, but Tuesday's gains drove the commodity-linked Australian dollar to a 10-month high against its U.S. counterpart.
Brent crude LCOc1, the international benchmark, last traded at $43.27 per barrel, up nearly 40 cents. Kuwaiti output fell to 1.1 million barrels a day on Sunday from 2.8 million bpd in March due to the strike, although analysts expect the impact to be brief.
"It is quite amazing how oil prices have recovered from Monday's lows. That is shoring up risk appetite and pushing up commodity-linked currencies," said Niels Christensen, FX strategist at Nordea. "As long as oil remains above $43 a barrel we think commodity currencies will remain supported."
Oil's rise from lows around $27 touched in February, along with signs of an improving U.S. economy and the U.S. Federal Reserve's cautious approach to raising interest rates, have helped lift stocks on Wall Street and elsewhere in recent weeks.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 share index .FTEU3 rose 1.3 percent, led higher by gains in basic resources stocks .SXPP, oil and gas .SXEP and travel and leisure .SXTP.
The FTSEurofirst is up 14 percent from February lows.
Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE added 0.5 percent.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS was up 1 percent, after touching its highest intraday levels since November.
Tokyo's Nikkei .N225 gained 3.7 percent, Australian shares hit their highest since early 2016 while New Zealand shares .NZ50 hit a new record high.
In China, both the CSI 300 .CSI300 and the Shanghai Composite .SSEC indexes closed 0.3 percent higher.
Emerging market stocks measured by MSCI .MSCIEF rose 0.7 percent and EM currencies broadly gained. Oil exporter Russia's rouble RUB= gained 1 percent to 65.50 per dollar.
The Australian dollar AUD= rose 0.5 percent to $0.7782, having earlier hit its strongest since June at $0.7803. The Canadian dollar CAD= hit its highest since July.
The U.S. dollar edged 0.1 percent lower against a basket of currencies .DXY. The euroEUR= was up 0.1 percent to $1.1328 but the safe-haven yen, which last week hit 17-month highs around 107.61 per dollar, fell 0.3 percent to 109.14.
Assurances from Fed Chair Janet Yellen that the central bank would be cautious in raising rates have held the dollar in check lately. The Fed meets next week and while no move is expected, investors will be on the look-out for signs of a hike in June.
European Central Bank policymakers meet on Thursday.
Government bond yields rose with stocks. In the euro zone, Italian yields rose before a hefty auction and Spanish 10-year yields ES10YT=TWEB rose 3 basis points to 1.53 percent after political parties' latest failure to form a government since an inconclusive election in December.
"It looks like the (Italy) announcement came as a surprise ... and now the market is preparing for that supply," Mizuho strategist Peter Chatwell said. "We've also got all of these political factors building up ... and the sentiment is going to be towards spreads widening from here."
Copper prices CMCU3, which have benefited from signs of economic recovery in China in recent weeks, dipped 0.4 percent to $4,809 a tonne.
Gold XAU= rose as the dollar weakened. It last traded at around $1,242 an ounce.
European shares hit three-month highs on Tuesday following gains on Asian bourses as a rise in oil prices, partly due to a workers' strike in Kuwait, boosting investors' appetite to take on risk.
Oil prices had already shrugged off the weekend failure of producers to agree to freeze output at a meeting in Doha, but Tuesday's gains drove the commodity-linked Australian dollar to a 10-month high against its U.S. counterpart.
Brent crude LCOc1, the international benchmark, last traded at $43.27 per barrel, up nearly 40 cents. Kuwaiti output fell to 1.1 million barrels a day on Sunday from 2.8 million bpd in March due to the strike, although analysts expect the impact to be brief.
"It is quite amazing how oil prices have recovered from Monday's lows. That is shoring up risk appetite and pushing up commodity-linked currencies," said Niels Christensen, FX strategist at Nordea. "As long as oil remains above $43 a barrel we think commodity currencies will remain supported."
Oil's rise from lows around $27 touched in February, along with signs of an improving U.S. economy and the U.S. Federal Reserve's cautious approach to raising interest rates, have helped lift stocks on Wall Street and elsewhere in recent weeks.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 share index .FTEU3 rose 1.3 percent, led higher by gains in basic resources stocks .SXPP, oil and gas .SXEP and travel and leisure .SXTP.
The FTSEurofirst is up 14 percent from February lows.
Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE added 0.5 percent.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS was up 1 percent, after touching its highest intraday levels since November.
Tokyo's Nikkei .N225 gained 3.7 percent, Australian shares hit their highest since early 2016 while New Zealand shares .NZ50 hit a new record high.
In China, both the CSI 300 .CSI300 and the Shanghai Composite .SSEC indexes closed 0.3 percent higher.
Emerging market stocks measured by MSCI .MSCIEF rose 0.7 percent and EM currencies broadly gained. Oil exporter Russia's rouble RUB= gained 1 percent to 65.50 per dollar.
The Australian dollar AUD= rose 0.5 percent to $0.7782, having earlier hit its strongest since June at $0.7803. The Canadian dollar CAD= hit its highest since July.
The U.S. dollar edged 0.1 percent lower against a basket of currencies .DXY. The euroEUR= was up 0.1 percent to $1.1328 but the safe-haven yen, which last week hit 17-month highs around 107.61 per dollar, fell 0.3 percent to 109.14.
Assurances from Fed Chair Janet Yellen that the central bank would be cautious in raising rates have held the dollar in check lately. The Fed meets next week and while no move is expected, investors will be on the look-out for signs of a hike in June.
European Central Bank policymakers meet on Thursday.
Government bond yields rose with stocks. In the euro zone, Italian yields rose before a hefty auction and Spanish 10-year yields ES10YT=TWEB rose 3 basis points to 1.53 percent after political parties' latest failure to form a government since an inconclusive election in December.
"It looks like the (Italy) announcement came as a surprise ... and now the market is preparing for that supply," Mizuho strategist Peter Chatwell said. "We've also got all of these political factors building up ... and the sentiment is going to be towards spreads widening from here."
Copper prices CMCU3, which have benefited from signs of economic recovery in China in recent weeks, dipped 0.4 percent to $4,809 a tonne.
Gold XAU= rose as the dollar weakened. It last traded at around $1,242 an ounce.
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