State Street Global Markets, the investment research and trading arm of State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), today released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index (ICI) for June 2012. The Global ICI rose by 7.0 points from Mays reading of 86.5 to reach 93.5, its highest level this year. North American and European investors were both behind the increase. Risk appetite among North American institutional investors climbed 5.7 from Mays revised reading of 88.1 to reach 93.8 in June, while sentiment among European institutional investors rose 4.5 points from Mays level of 98.0 to reach 102.5. Asian investors displayed a more modest improvement in risk appetite, reflected in an increase of 1.0 in the Asian ICI from Mays final reading of 89...
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