Market News – 23 February
23/02/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets continued to recover over the last week. While initially coming under pressure from ongoing worries about inflation and the US Federal Reserve (the Fed), US shares rose sharply on Friday, resulting in a 0.6% gain for the week. Eurozone shares gained 0.3% for the […]
Market News – 16 February
16/02/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets rebounded over the last week, as share investors became a bit more relaxed about the prospect of higher inflation and interest rates and the unwinding of ‘short’ volatility trades ran its course. However, the rebound has been concentrated in the US share market, […]
Market News – 9 February
9/02/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets had another rough week as the worries around rising inflation and bond yields and a more aggressive Fed continued to impact. While US shares had a good bounce on Friday, for the week they fell 5.2%, Eurozone shares fell 5.1%, Japanese […]
Market News – 2 February
2/02/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week After a strong start to the year global shares came under pressure over the last week as bond yields rose further, in part driven by rising expectations for more aggressive Fed monetary tightening and rising US wages. US shares fell 3.9% for the week, eurozone shares […]
Market News – 26 January
26/01/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets were mixed over the last week with US shares gaining 2.2% to a record high helped by good earnings news, Chinese shares up 2.2% and Australian shares up 0.7%, but European shares down 0.2% and Japanese shares down 0.7% on a further rise in […]
Market News – 19 January
19/01/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week US equity markets continued to track higher over the week, continuing the positive trend since the beginning of the year with the S&P500 up 0.9%. Euro stocks were 1.0% higher, Japanese equities rose by 0.7%, Chinese shares were 1.4% higher while Australian shares lagged behind, and […]
Market News – 12 January
12/01/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week There was plenty of action in markets over the past week with lots of noise and anticipation over future central bank action. US equities were up by 1.6% over the week, Euro stocks increased by 0.4%, Japanese equities were down 0.2%, Chinese equities lifted by […]
Market News – 15 December
15/12/2017Investment markets and key developments over the past week Despite a continuing run of very favourable global economic news – highlighting strong growth, low inflation and benign central banks – share markets were mixed over the last week. US shares staged a late surge to be up 0.9%, helped by increasing signs tax reform […]
Market News – 8 December
8/12/2017Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares had a few wobbles early in the past week with a bit of profit-taking partly triggered by the US Senate’s tax reform bill delaying the corporate tax rate cut until 2019 and its retention of the alternative minimum tax for corporates, which could mean […]
Market News – 1 December
1/12/2017Investment markets and key developments over the past week US shares rose 1.5% over the last week to new record highs helped by progress on tax reform and Jerome Powell confirming that he would opt for less onerous financial regulation at the US Federal Reserve. Japanese shares also rose 1.2%, and Australian shares […]