Global stock market surge ‘likely to be short-lived’

Global stock markets will at best only recoup losses in 2019 from the sell-off late in 2018, according to analysts polled by Reuters, who reckon the risk is skewed more toward a decline in mid-year.

Optimism among equity strategists has diminished after the 2018 rout, which left it the worst year for most markets since the global financial crisis.