New year bonuses

Question marks are still lingering over the global stock exchanges, however. Brexit (and the potential chaos it might lead to) as well as how the Chinese economy might react to its trade dispute with the US, remain significant risk factors. The more relaxed attitude of the US central bank to interest rate increases gave the emerging markets a starring role in the early part of the year. Investors have started shopping again, while the stock markets in such countries as Argentina, Egypt, Turkey and Brazil have shot up, even achieving double-digit increases during the first month and a half of 2019. And the Warsaw Stock Exchange has also been among the beneficiaries of all this. It not only had a good start to the year but its y-o-y turnover was higher too. Poland is still one of the leading lights when it comes to economic growth, which is basically being driven by such factors as the healthy situation of the labour market, the level of consumption and the inflow of EU funds. And we hav