(CercleFinance.com) – The European stock markets lost more or less ground at the end of the morning (-0.3% in London, -0.7% in Frankfurt and Paris), thus moving towards a closing on a negative note for this last session of 2022.
At this stage, the FTSE 100 is posting a gain of less than 2% over the whole of the year that is ending, while the DAX and the CAC40 are showing annual declines of around 11% and 9% respectively. % since last January 1st.
“A few hours from the end of a 2022 financial year that will be remembered, the results are clearly not brilliant for the stock markets”, notes Kiplink, which points to the worst performance of global equities since the financial crisis of 2008.
“The environment has not changed with markets still worried about a probable recession to come against a backdrop of soaring prices and Central Banks committed to fighting this surge in inflation at all costs”, explains the company of management.
“We can consider that 2023 will be in line with 2022 with and still the strikes in Ukraine carried out in recent days by Russia, which confirm the hypothesis that peace is not yet at hand,” he said. she further.
In this difficult context, Euronext reports 83 IPOs carried out in 2022, having raised 3.8 billion euros, figures nevertheless much lower than the 212 IPOs and 26 billion euros raised in 2021.
The only data published this morning in Europe, annual Spanish inflation slowed to 5.8% in total data in December, thus continuing its momentum since its peak of 10.8% last July, but on the contrary accelerated to 6.9% in underlying data.
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