Stocks edge higher as darker forecasts loom – Yahoo Finance

By Nell Mackenzie
(Reuters) -World stocks inched higher, European bond yields dropped and the dollar held firm in light trading on Monday following warnings from the International Monetary Fund's managing director that a third of the world will fall into recession in 2023.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.04%, just short of an index of global shares, which climbed 0.18%.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index climbed 0.8%, retracing some of the nearly 12% it lost in 2022, bludgeoned by central banks' aggressive monetary policy tightening.
Traders were reluctant to trust early-year starts in stock and bond moves, with many markets closed for a holiday and ahead of a host of economic numbers due this week.
Inflation data from Europe, minutes from the December U.S. Federal Reserve meeting and U.S. labour market numbers were some of the highlights that Danske Bank chief analyst Piet Haines Christiansen said would be worth watching.
"I would be cautious over interpreting any moves this morning," said Christiansen.
Markets in Britain, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, Canada and the United States were shut.
Christiansen expected the new year to kick off with a renewed focus on central banks and inflation. Traders would be vigilant for any signs of an approaching recession, he said.
Buoyant stock prices in Europe might be due, he said, to survey results published on Monday, which pointed towards a rebound in optimism among euro zone factory managers.
S&P Global’s final manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) bounced to 47.8 in December from November’s 47.1, matching a preliminary reading but below the 50 mark separating growth from contraction.
"Europe is taking the latest round of PMIs well enough, as the final readings help to confirm the view (hope?) that the worst may be over for the EU bloc’s manufacturers, especially as energy prices recede to the levels of last February," Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, wrote in emailed comments.
DOLLAR STRUGGLES TO MAINTAIN STRENGTH
Elsewhere, the dollar edged almost 0.2% higher against a basket of major currencies, while the pound and euro fell 0.4% and 0.2% respectively.
"There is an attempt by the dollar index to pull higher today but we do see that it is losing a good part of the strength it gained last year," said Ulrich Leuchtmann, head of forex research at Commerzbank.
"After the last Fed meeting, the market was not convinced that the Fed won't cut rates later in 2023. It's going to be an interesting year."
U.S. Treasuries will resume trading on Tuesday after a public holiday on Monday.
German government bond yields on Monday tumbled from their highest levels in more than a decade amid more hawkish signals from the European Central Bank (ECB).
ECB President Christine Lagarde said euro zone wages were growing quicker than earlier thought, and the central bank must prevent this from adding to already-high inflation.
Germany's 10-year bond yield fell 12 bps to 2.44%, after hitting its highest since 2011 at 2.57% on Friday.
Oil markets were closed but prices in 2023 were set for small gains as a darkening economic backdrop and COVID-19 flare-ups in China threaten demand growth and offset the impact of supply shortfalls caused by sanctions on Russia, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.
The new year is going to be "tougher than the year we leave behind," IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Sunday on the CBS Sunday morning news program "Face the Nation."
"Why? Because the three big economies – the U.S., EU and China – are all slowing down simultaneously," she said.
(Reporting by Nell Mackenzie; Additional reporting Dhara Ranasinghe; Editing by Barbara Lewis and Bernadette Baum)
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