In November, world financial markets experienced strong emotions as a result of the presidential elections in the US and the meeting of OPEC member states.

Citadele bank plans to perform the issue of subordinated bonds, amounting up to EUR 40 million. The bonds are supposed to be admitted to the regulated market – Baltic list of debt securities of the stock exchange Nasdaq Riga. The purpose of the issue is to strengthen the bank’s capital in order to achieve future business objectives by using the raised funds as the bank’s subordinated capital, as well as to perform early repayment of subordinated loan obtained from the Latvian Privatisation Agency. The bonds will be offered to the investors in Latvia and Lithuania, and qualified investors from other EEA countries will be also able to acquire the bonds.

In October, the global stock market moved sideways while keeping lower volatility. Investors mostly focused their attention on quarterly corporate reports, as well as on US pre-election jitters.

September turned out to be rather complicated month for global financial markets. Following the quiet conditions in August, volatility at the markets was resumed due to actions taken by the central banks of the leading countries. First was the ECB session at the beginning of the month, which was expected by some market players to bring additional stimulation measures under the ECB monetary policy.

August was rather calm on global financial markets. In the midst of holiday season, there was not a lot of news, and given the absence of significant events, the investors opted for a waiting attitude.

In July, the prices on global financial markets kept growing for almost all types of assets. The panic of June due to the unexpected results of the referendum concerning the membership of Great Britain in the European Union subsided rather quickly, and investors returned to the market. It can be partly explained by common understanding that the process of Great Britain leaving the EU will be quite long, thus preventing strong negative consequences. The statements of central banks, especially the ECB and Bank of England, regarding their readiness to provide support to financial markets and defuse the effect caused by Brexit, if necessary, played their role as well.

In June, the focus of the market players’ attention was the sessions of main central banks of the world and the UK referendum on the EU membership. However, it is fair to say that the results of central banks’ sessions were of much smaller concern for the investors, since no particular surprises were expected. The only thing that aroused some interest was the statement made by the FRS Chair Janet Yellen, namely, that ‘forces holding down interest rates may be long-lasting’, referring, inter alia, to the results of voting for Brexit.

Starting from 13 June 2016, changes in the Basic Information for Investors on ABLV Global Corporate USD Bond Fund become effective.

In May, the global stock market was still in a consolidation phase which started in April. Given the absence of some notable events, the main capital market indexes fluctuated between 3-5%. At the beginning of the month, some players tried once again to test the validity of the expression ‘Sell in May and go away’, due to which many stock markets experienced the pressure from sellers in the first half of the month. However, wide range of investors did not support this ‘initiative’, which added to the market recovery by the end of the month.

In April, the global stock market took a little time off after quite good growth in March. Market participants again focused on the actions of central banks and corporate reports. Nothing specific was expected from the FRS or ECB, nevertheless, everybody was interested in the declamations of the heads of the central banks regarding the further monetary policy. The ECB highlighted the slight improvement of forecast of economic performance in the Eurozone and confirmed the will to use “all instruments”, if necessary, in order to achieve the target rate of inflation.