Market News – 11 May
11/05/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets rose over the last week helped by another Goldilocks combination of good economic data, strong profits and benign US inflation. This was despite the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal which pushed up oil prices. For the week, US shares rose […]
Market News – 27 April
27/04/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares were flat to up over the last week. Eurozone shares rose 0.5% and Japanese and Australian shares rose 1.4% whereas US shares were flat despite good earnings results and Chinese shares fell 0.1%. Despite a mid-week spike higher, bond yields were flat in the US, […]
Market News – 20 April
20/04/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week The news flow was less dominated by politics this week and more by positive economic developments which gave share markets a boost. US shares were up by 0.5% (and have recovered around 4% from post-tariff March lows), Eurozone shares were 1.3% higher, Japanese equities lifted by […]
Market News – 13 April
13/04/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets rose over the last week as, while volatility remained high, not helped by worries about a missile strike on Syria and the FBI raiding President Trump’s lawyer’s office, trade war risks receded. US shares rose 2%, Eurozone shares rose 1.2%, Japanese shares gained 1%, […]
Market News – 6 April
6/04/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets had another volatile week – starting down as the US announced details of proposed 25% tariff hikes on US$$50bn of imports from China and as China announced its own plans for same sized tariffs, rebounding as investors came to the view that some sort […]
Market News – 29 March
29/03/2018Share markets were mixed over the last week. Worries about increased regulation of technology stocks, possible restrictions on Chinese investment in US technology companies and a continuing rise in bank funding costs all caused volatility, but fears about a trade war that had been way overstated the previous week receded a bit. US shares […]
Market News – 23 March
23/03/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets fell sharply over the last week not helped initially by tech stocks due to a privacy breach at Facebook and then later in the week after President Trump proposed tariffs on US$50bn of imports from China fuelling renewed fears of a trade […]
Market News – 16 March
16/03/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets were a bit messy over the last week as instability in the Trump Administration and worries about US trade barriers, particularly in relation to China, continued. US shares fell 1.2%, Eurozone shares were flat, Japanese shares rose 1% and Chinese shares fell 1.3%. […]
Market News – 9 March
9/03/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week Despite a bit of volatility around the US tariff issue and the Italian election, share markets bounced back over the last week as it all turned out less bad, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and President Trump agreed to meet and goldilocks returned to the […]
Market News – 2 March
2/03/2018Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets turned back down over the last week as fears relating to inflation and US Federal Reserve (the Fed) rate hikes continued to ramp up on the back of the Fed’s Chair Powell’s Congressional testimony, not helped by President Trump’s announcement of tariffs on US […]