2023-12-17 17:37:04
Published on December 17, 2023 at 6:37 p.m. / Modified on December 17, 2023 at 7:00 p.m.
Perspectives 2024
Stocks or bonds? United States or Europe? The year 2024 should be marked by the normalization of Western monetary policies. What will the investment prospects be? Elements of response in the special file that The weather and its guest contributors devote to the theme.
“The year 2024 has already started”: many market experts think that the pause in interest rates confirmed by the president of the American Federal Reserve (Fed), Jerome Powell, during the monetary meeting on October 31 and last November 1, marked the end of the post-covid economic cycle, and of 2023. The markets changed trajectory and recovered more in a few weeks than in many months. US Treasury bonds saw their yield increase by more than 8%, following losing 4.7% between January and the end of October. The flagship indices of the stock market posted performances not seen for years: +11.7% for the S&P 500, +6.7% for the SMI.
Read also: “We are entering a new economic cycle”
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