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Global stock markets enter the second quarter this week after a mixed start to the year. The developed world’s major stock exchanges have been unable to sustain the advances of 2013 over the first quarter of the year, with the S&P 500 in New York up only 0.5%, London’s FTSE 100 index down 2% and, in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 Stock Average losing 9.3% over the first three months of the year. However, there’s a confidence in financial markets and boardrooms that April and the second quarter will bring further news of recovery for Western economies and equity markets. Despite market concerns over Russia and Ukraine, the mood is upbeat for the US economy and the pace of its central bankers’ retreat from loose monetary policy. And China’s Premier Li Keqiang has reassured global investors that Beijing is ready to support its cooling economy.
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