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WFE Full Year 2020 Market Highlights Report details financial impacts of 2020

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Published on: 19 February 2021

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LNB News 19/02/2021

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Issue Date: 19 February 2021

Published Date: 19 February 2021

Jurisdiction(s): United Kingdom

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The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has published its Full Year 2020 Market Highlights Report, which shows the impact of the various events of 2020 on markets holistically, including the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Brexit and the US presidential election. Despite the ‘peak in uncertainty’ in March 2020, where market volatility levels were ‘comparable only to those of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008’, the outcome of the US presidential election and the approval of several coronavirus vaccines allowed the year to end better than anticipated.

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