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As a warning shot to the rest of the world, the US is openly scared of the power being accumulated by China and its rising market share in semiconductors, quantum computing and artificial intelligence industries. To address this and limit China’s influence on global supply chains, the US Treasury Department is advancing plans to limit
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Households around the world are likely to face cost-of-living pressures for longer than originally expected with monetary policies around the world still struggling to curb inflation. So rather than imminent interest rate cuts, talk of rises in the United States has flowed on to Australia where inflation is still rising faster than core CPI. US
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Global markets rose through March 2024 in the backdrop of President Joe Biden and Fed Chair Jerome Powell agreeing that rate cuts would be seen in 2024. But it wouldn’t be a US election year without political tensions simmering across the seas with the US set to ban TikTok in the country. Separately, a top
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US markets: US markets were stronger in the month, with the Dow Jones up +4.8% and S&P500 up +4.4%, as Fed held interest rates steady at 5.25-5.5% for a third meeting and gave its clearest signal yet that its aggressive hiking campaign is finished by forecasting 75bps of cuts in 2024 as the officials downgraded both
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The Australian share market remains in a trading range of 6,500 to 7,500 since 2021 as shown in Figure 1. Over these past three years, there have been market rallies and there have been sell-offs of equal proportions, keeping the market range-bound. As of the writing of this letter on 21 December, the Australian share
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Global Markets Update US markets: US markets were stronger, with the Dow Jones up +8.8% and S&P500 up +8.9%, as dovish comments from several Fed officials following weak economic data saw swaps pricing in a 50% chance of a U.S. rate cut in March with the effective fed funds rate to fall to about 4.06%
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US markets: US markets were lower, with the Dow Jones down -3.5% and S&P500 down -4.9%, as evidence of a resilient labour market reinforced the case for the Fed to keep rates elevated. Long-dated US treasury yields were higher, with the 2-Yr yield at 5.04% and 10-Yr yield at 4.57%, with the Fed Bank of NY’s
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The US midterm elections were the height of November’s issue. US markets seemed disappointed that the Republicans were not able to achieve a knockout win that was expected. Most sectors were fluctuating trying to resist, while bitcoin continued to crash. The market also hit record high since 2020 after weaker-than-expected inflation supported investor hopes that
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Self-funded retirees are being squeezed by negative returns and a rising cost of living There is palpable angst amongst bond investors right now, particularly amongst those who are of a mature age and nearer-to or already in retirement. Investors have gone from reading about the well-covered macro-economic risk factors in the media, since at least
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Investors in the past week, no doubt, would have come across a torrent of news reports on the selloff in global share markets, rising inflation & interest rates, and energy shortages on the east coast of Australia with a real possibility of ongoing blackouts. Therefore, investors can be forgiven for feeling a little anxious about
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Global Markets Update: US markets: US markets declined in the month, with the Dow Jones down -4.9% and S&P500 down -8.8%, as high-growth stocks took a hit after Fed signalled it will reduce its massive bond holdings at a maximum pace of $95 billion a month, further tightening credit across the economy and Fed Chair
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Let’s commence this month’s review on a positive note with Australian share market now decisively in the green territory. Considering much macro uncertainty, the investment returns are nothing short of impressive at 10.4% for twelve months to 31 March 2022; six months return at 2.3%; and one month return of 6.4%. In fact, the share
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New research reveals what sectors and strategies do well as the cost of living rises Inflation is here – and it doesn’t matter if you think it is transitory or not. The question that needs to be asked is, what investment strategies have historically done well or poorly in periods of high and rising inflation?
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Global Markets Update: US markets. US markets declined in the month, with the Dow Jones down -3.5%and S&P 500 down -3.1%. Long-dated US treasury yields higher, with the 2-Yr yield at 1.44% and 10-Yr yield at 1.83%. European markets. European markets declined with the Stoxx Europe 600 Index down -3.4% and German DAX down -6.5%, as
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It is difficult but not to notice splashed all over the tv and phone screens the coverage of Russia and Ukraine war. Naturally, the images of war evoke feelings of unease and concerns in even those of us who are so far geographically removed from Ukraine. Aside from the obvious and unfortunate fact that a
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Our Insider & Shareholders’ Transactions Monthly aims to understand the ‘actual’ sentiment of insiders (such as company directors and officers) and major shareholders (such as founders with significant holdings), towards a Company by analysing their transaction data, tracking and dissecting actual purchases and divestment of stock by these key stakeholders. In this report, we neatly
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