The confidence of European investors has risen for the first time in four months, after oil prices retreated and the economy gained momentum. The index measuring sentiment in the 17-nation euro area rose to 5.3 from 3.5 points in June, the study of Sentix, which is one of the leaders in Germany and Europe. The indicator of current business conditions rose from 18.50 19.25, and that the expected – advanced from -10.50 to -7.75 points. In the monthly study involved 922 investors. It was conducted between June 30-July 2, and results are revised.
In the first quarter euro area recorded the strongest growth for almost a year, helped by unexpectedly strong economic growth in Germany, compensating austerity in other countries in the region. The crude oil prices fell by around 4% last month, EU finance ministers approved a loan to Greece amounted to 8.7 billion, increase confidence.
“It seems that the correction in commodity prices, especially oil, is considered as a cushion,” it said in a statement Sentix. “Improved estimates of the investors are definitely influenced the vote and support for Greece.”
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“The average investor has no confidence in the market it has a different attitude towards it,” says the Wall Street veteran Muriel Siebert. “We want a market in which people accumulate their retirement savings. They no longer do so as before. I have clients who hold full cache because no longer have the same confidence. For them money is simply not working, “she said. Born during the Great Depression Siebert has witnessed many economic cycles as a trader on Wall Street and banking supervisor. She began her career as an intern analyst for 65 dollars a week to become the first woman to place the New York Stock Exchange in 1967. Today she heads the brokerage firm Muriel Siebert & Co. “What scares me is disappointing and that the public has no confidence in the market,” she Cava. “We do not see people who traded before. You bring them back. Mass investors contributed to many successes of this country.”
Siebert blames lack of transparency, especially in derivatives. They have their markets, but must be regulated, says she. “Before we had more transparency about what is happening in the markets,” she remembers. “Trade was real, so that could be analyzed a little better. You can make light of OTC block trades”. To return to ordinary investors in stocks, as it is compelling global regulation on securities.
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The index of investor confidence in the euro zone rose to -12.6 points in October from -14.6 points in September. This is the highest value of the index of July 2008, it is clear from the data of the research institute Sentix. Economists had predicted a slightly stronger growth of the barometer of investor confidence to -12 points. The index recorded a monthly increase for the seventh last eight months under the influence of expectations that Europe’s economic situation will improve. Moreover, the uncertainty of investors regarding the U.S. economy has disappeared. Increases significantly and their assessment for developing economies, particularly those from Latin America. The study of Sentix was conducted in early September, among the 3 thousand individual and institutional investors. It reveals that their optimism for the future is growing again because of the expectations index rose by 5.75 points to 5.5 points for September. Assessment of current economic conditions rose to -29.25 to -32.75 points points.
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