Markets mixed as US stocks rebound

Markets were mixed on Wednesday.

The S&P 500 rose 0.2 percent but the STOXX Europe 600 fell 0.4 percent and the Nikkei 225 plunged 2.1 percent.

“My feeling is we are running into a period of risk-off sentiment,” said Christoffer Moltke-Leth, director of global sales trading at Saxo Capital Markets.

Nevertheless, the rebound in the US kept some analysts optimistic.

“The market’s decline was relatively short-lived and economic data are amazingly strong, so we are still in a bull market and view this as a buying opportunity,” said Randy Frederick, managing director of Trading & Derivatives at Schwab Center for Financial Research.

In contrast, Kathleen Brooks, research director at City Index, wrote in a note that “the market is sending us some signals that could suggest a deeper pullback is on its way”.