Market News – 05 Dec
5/12/2018‘Tariff Man’ Trump stokes uncertainty about US-China trade war. New York: US sharemarkets plunged on Tuesday, local time, amid growing uncertainty about whether a truce struck between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump at the G20 summit will lead to a long-term deal to ease trade tensions between the two superpowers. Trump […]
Top 30 shorted stocks on the ASX
30/11/2018Top 30 shorted stocks on the ASX The technique of profiting from a price fall is called short-selling, otherwise known as “shorting,” “to go short” or simply “short”. Basically, short-selling is the reverse of how we’re traditionally taught to invest, to buy at the lowest possible price and sell at the highest. When shorting, you […]
Market News – 11 Oct
11/10/2018ASX ends second worst day of year with heavy losses. The ASX ended its second worst day of the year with around $40 billion wiped from Australian markets after a “perfect storm” on Wall Street caused heavy stock losses across every other sector. After plunging at the opening, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index slid down 166 […]
Market News – 08 Oct
8/10/2018Outlook for the Australian economy Investors might have noted some recent positives in the Australian economy. June quarter GDP growth of 3.4% was above potential and its fastest rate since 2012. We have also seen pretty good jobs numbers, with the unemployment rate trending down and sitting at a six-year low of 5.3%. And job […]
Market News – 29 June
29/06/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw geopolitical concerns around trade, and particularly the US-China relationship, continue to dominate investment markets. This saw most share markets fall, with the Chinese share market falling particularly sharply, but the Australian share market held up pretty well with higher oil prices boosting […]
Market News – 22 June
22/06/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw geopolitics continue to cause gyrations in markets with political tensions around immigration in Germany and Trump upping the ante on trade with China. This saw most major share markets fall, particularly in Europe and China and at the same time emerging markets […]
Market News – 8 June
8/06/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw share markets rebound as investors refocussed a bit away from the geopolitical soap operas back to favourable underlying global growth. This saw major share markets rebound, although Eurozone shares were constrained by ongoing weakness in Italian shares, and bond yields rise which […]
Market News – 1 June
1/06/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw financial markets dominated yet again by geopolitical developments with first the turmoil in Italy and then US trade announcements rattling share markets with most falling and driving down bond yields (except in Italy of course) as investors sought safe havens. Commodity prices […]
Market News – 25 May
25/05/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week has again seen geopolitical issues dominate with renewed trade worries out of the US, the cancellation of the North Korean summit and rising angst around the formation of a populist coalition government in Italy. Despite this US shares managed a slight rise […]
Market News – 18 May
18/05/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets were mixed over the last week with Eurozone and Japanese shares up helped by weakness in their currencies, but US shares down a bit on the back of rising bond yields and geopolitical worries. This weighed on Australian shares and Chinese shares […]