Europe\u2019s stock markets have beaten Wall Street by the biggest margin in more than three decades over recent months as its economy looks set to dodge a recession many thought inevitable just a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since late September, European market benchmarks have risen by 20 percentage points more than Wall Street \u2014 the largest outperformance seen in a four-month period in the past 30 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though over the past two weeks, Europe\u2019s stocks have posted slightly smaller gains than US equities, this has done \u201clittle to erode their outperformance since September,\u201d Graham Secker, chief European equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, told CNN. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The overall rise is a reversal of a 15-year trend that has seen US stock indices, flush with fast-growing tech companies, consistently beat those across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt had been quite a sharp turnaround and the sharpest in a while,\u201d Thomas Mathews, senior markets economist at Capital Economics, told CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a note earlier this month, Morgan Stanley said the reversal was driven by a combination of falling gas prices and better-than-expected economic data in Europe, as well as China\u2019s swift reopening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Similarly, Mathews at Capital Economics noted that the \u201csteady outperformance\u201d of European stocks can be dated back to a decline in European wholesale gas prices from their all-time high reached in late August. Europe\u2019s benchmark gas contract is now trading at \u20ac57 ($62) per megawatt hour, sharply down from the peak of \u20ac346 ($375) per megawatt hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Consumer price inflation in the region has also ticked down in recent months. In the countries that use the euro, inflation fell from a record high of 10.6% in October to 8.5% in January, preliminary data from the EU statistics office showed on Wednesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
More broadly, investors have been encouraged by Europe\u2019s economic resilience over the past year. GDP in the eurozone grew 3.5% in 2022 \u2014 more than in the United States or China \u2014 including a slight expansion in the final quarter, according to a preliminary estimate by the EU statistics office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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