📈March Sees Risk Bid Across Equity Benchmarks: Cable FX Macro

• Q1 ends with further gains in risk, U.S. equities finished the month up 3.1%, however, more than half of G10 benchmarks outperformed the S&P 500 index

• EU Stoxx 600 index recorded a gain of 3.8% as it closes a fifth consecutive monthly rise. The U.K.'s FTSE 100 benchmark had been an underperformer for most of 1Q, it reversed prior losses as it finished March up 4.2%

• The risk on tone wasn't reflected in FX, high-beta currencies failed to gain traction and the dollar traded mixed