Week ending 12th October 2018. - 15th October 2018
As you can see from the accompanying table, it hasn’t been a pretty week, as a sea of red hit equity markets. This was predominately due [...]
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Weekly Market Summary.
Week ending 5th October 2018. - 8th October 2018
What started out as a reasonably positive, risk-on week thanks to progress on trade agreements, ended up being disappointing by the time the closing bell rang [...]
Week ending 28th September 2018. - 1st October 2018
Beyond the political spectacle on Capitol Hill, the biggest event this week was Wednesday’s (26 September 2018) US Fed interest rate decision. US policymakers increased interest [...]
Week ending 21st September 2018. - 24th September 2018
There was a lot of news flow this week and equity markets responded positively, the US touched record highs whilst China and Japan posted their best [...]
Week ending 14th September 2018. - 17th September 2018
There was a distinct lack of exuberance shown by equity markets this week to news that Steven Mnuchin, the US Treasury Secretary, had offered to restart [...]
Week ending 7th September 2018. - 10th September 2018
Emerging Markets concerns continued to weigh on sentiment this week. While every journalist was busy expressing their concerns about Emerging Market contagion and making similarities with [...]
Week ending 31st August 2018. - 3rd September 2018
Global equity markets simply traded news headlines this week. The announcement of a bilateral trade deal agreement between the US and Mexico pushed equities higher as [...]
Week ending 24th August 2018. - 28th August 2018
Thankfully, global equities ignored all the legal drama in the US and ended the week marginally higher - giving us a break from what has been [...]
Week ending 17th August 2018. - 20th August 2018
Yet another relatively quiet week for economic news… that being said, there have been a few interesting elements worthy of consideration that have impacted broader global [...]
Week ending 10th August 2018. - 13th August 2018
It could be argued that this week has been one of the quietest weeks in terms of volume of economic news that we have seen in [...]
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