And not all companies operating in Finland are Finnish. Finnish listed companies, on the other hand, have a lot of business abroad.
The correlation between the development of the national economy and the stock market is not nearly as strong as one might initially imagine.
…so as you’ve already received a couple of responses to your overly optimistic writing…that is, if the Helsinki stock exchange is slumping, the root cause is Finland’s miserable situation; if it rises, it’s due to reasons outside Finland…lest citizens be given the wrong signal that now is a boom time and it’s time to start spending and get the economy moving…no no…save your meager savings in a stocking, and if it’s already full, find another used sock from the wardrobe (don’t buy a new one!)…and from the forest, fetch half pine bark for your bread, and the polar night is approaching, so just go into some dark hole to lament your own and Finland’s misery…I myself, at some point last winter, succumbed to writing an overly sympathetic comment in that Hesuli (Helsinki Stock Exchange) thread about Hesuli’s rise this year…but no worries, bad times will surely return to the Helsinki stock exchange again…
Flat, but mostly still green, if one thinks really positively.
Have a nice start to the week! 
So, Trump has the first 10% in the bag. The image above shows the S&P 500’s performance during different presidential terms, starting from Reagan. Pretty much an average performance, from the stock market’s perspective.
The theme of the tweet below is the S&P 500’s movements after interest rate cuts
Here is @Jukka_Lepikko’s tweet about Russell’s peaks 
https://x.com/JukkaLepikko/status/1968739095456161847
Nice that at least this is noticed. My own Helsinki ATH as an OMXHGI metric, on the other hand, is ignored. This truth doesn’t fit our sentiment. 
Nikkei reached new records, 45,500. The S&P 500 is also +15% year-to-date, while in Europe it’s more subdued; for example, Stoxx 600, DAX, and OMXH are quite close to February’s figures.
BUT, a large part is explained by currency fluctuations; the Euro has strengthened by at least 10% against the dollar and over 5% against the Japanese Yen.
Here are the developments of Finnish caps and Eka Pohjola in @OsakeKeisari’s tweet:
OP’s Hännikäinen’s tweet about how different markets have been thriving in their own currencies
https://x.com/JariHnnikinen1/status/1973259162089037863
The direction of the S&P 500 is familiar, and will remain so for a while, if history is to be trusted… 
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1973435546371330501
Lies, damned lies, and statistics? It would feel like there’s more downward pressure than upward pressure if the results don’t grow significantly 
But I too only look at past statistics; maybe everything is different for once.
There have been only five shutdowns this century, and only two in the 90s, and they do not really correlate with macroeconomic movements, but are more related to how power is distributed in Congress and the White House at any given moment.
ATHs have been popping nicely this year and last year in the S&P 500
https://x.com/charliebilello/status/1974302809349636295
I’m also posting this here, because Japan’s progress has been followed a bit here too. 
