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On Tuesday, oil, stocks and risk currencies, which included Bitcoin, all saw gains as the formal go-ahead was given to President-elect Joe Biden to start his transition to the White House. There was a 3% rise in the world’s most popular crypto, as it was just shy of its record high, which brought about a surge in risk appetite. There was a 0.6% surge in the European STOXX 600 index and Brent crude also hit their highest levels since March. In contrast, there was a decline in safe-haven assets like gold. After dealing with weeks of legal challenges over the election results, Emily Murphy, the chief of U.S. General Services Administration informed Biden on Monday that they could initiate the formal handover process.
A tweet from President Donald Trump highlighted that he had given his team the go-ahead to do what needs to be done for the transition. Analysts said that markets had been constrained for weeks due to increased levels of uncertainty regarding the political situation in the US, along with COVID-19 vaccines. However, with these two problems resolved, investors are now hopeful that some form of normality could be seen in 2021. US stocks further saw a boost due to reports of Federal Reserve Chair, Janet Yellen, being nominated by Biden as the next Treasury Secretary.
There were expectations that she would opt for more conventional policies, as opposed to Steve Mnuchin. There was a 0.8% climb in S&P 500 futures in European trading hours, which put the MSCI world stocks index for 49 countries on the path of a record high. President-elect Biden and Kamala Harris, the Vice-President, were also scheduled to formally introduce their appointments for foreign and security policy positions in Wilmington, Delaware. There was a 2.5% increase in Japan’s Nikkei 225, which was its highest after May 1991, with real estate, energy and financial shares leading the charge.
There was also a 0.4% rise in Asia-Pacific shares excluding Japan. There was also a 1.2% increase in Australia’s S&P 200, as it reached its highest in the last nine months, and the rise was mostly led by energy shares. Amongst the positive shares in Asia, Chinese blue chips appeared to be outliers, as they edged down 0.6% with investors making profits due to recent strong gains. The progress that has been made so far on coronavirus vaccines also helped in boosting risk appetite, as investors were looking forward to a better 2021 and willing to look past the short-term economic consequences from the pandemic.
The Russian rouble and the South African rand extended the winning run this week. The New Zealand dollar was also amongst those that gained, as it rose by almost 0.9% to reach a two-year high. The euro was also heading towards a gain and the dollar index was on track to go down against a basket of some other major currencies. Bitcoin managed to exceed the $19,000 for the first time in the last three years, as demand for the asset was spurred by growth in inflation.
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