European ECM gears up for choppy 2019 as sell-off rolls on

Aidan Gregory

January 02, 2019 01:00 pm

NYSE_4_PA_230x150 — (181226) -- NEW YORK, Dec. 26, 2018 (Xinhua) -- Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, Dec. 26, 2018. U.S. stocks soared on Wednesday, with the Dow surging more than 1,000 points, as investors tried to regain some of the steep losses suffered in the previous trading sessions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 1,086.25 points, or 4.98 percent, to 22,878.45. The S&P 500 climbed 116.60 points, or 4.96 percent, to 2,467.70. The Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 361.44 points, or 5.84 percent, to 6,554.36. (Xinhua/Wang Ying) | Wang Ying/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images

Europe’s equity capital markets are going to reopen in 2019 against one of the most difficult macroeconomic backdrops in recent memory, after the FTSE 100 suffered its worst yearly fall since the financial crisis last year and most other major equity indices finished 2018 deeply in the red.

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