FinSec Post

Investment markets and key developments over the past week While US shares fell over the last week on nervousness ahead of a likely Fed rate hike, the loss was cut to 0.4% after the release of solid jobs data on Friday & most share markets rose with European shares up 0.3%, Japanese shares up 0.7%, Australian shares gaining 0.8% and Chinese shares flat. Bond yields pushed up in most regions with yields in the US and Australia rising above their highs [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw US shares rise 0.7%, European shares gain 2.6% and Japanese shares rise 1% helped by strong US forward looking data, signs that the US Federal Reserve is increasingly confident in the US outlook and confidence that President Trump is in on track with his pro-business agenda. By contrast Australian shares fell 0.2% and Chinese shares fell 1.3%. Bond yields generally rose as the probability of a March US [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw shares rise 0.9% in the US, 1.5% in China and 0.3% in Japan helped by more good economic data, but Eurozone shares fell 0.3% and Australian shares lost 1.2% as profit results became more mixed towards the end of the profit reporting season. Bond yields generally fell and commodity prices were mostly up. The A$ was little changed. While shares have generally continued to push higher they remain [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Most major share markets continued to move higher over the past week helped by more good economic and profit news and anticipation of President Trump's pro-business policies. US shares gained 1.5%, Eurozone shares rose 1%, Chinese shares rose 0.2% and Australian shares gained 1.5%, but Japanese shares fell 0.7%. Bond yields generally rose as the reflation trade continued but commodity prices were mixed with oil and metal prices down a bit but [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Most major share markets rose over the last week helped by a combination of good economic data, profit news and announcements from President Trump progressing his deregulation and tax reform agenda. US shares rose 0.8%, Japanese shares rose 2.4%, Chinese shares gained 1.5% and Australian shares rose 1.8%. Eurozone shares slipped 0.1%. Bond yields mostly fell though helped along by dovish comments from ECB President Draghi. Oil prices were flat but metal [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Despite good economic and profit news, Trump jitters dominated markets over the last week, but his plan to relax bank regulations and benign US jobs data saw US and Eurozone shares bounce back at the end of the week. This saw US shares rise 0.1% for the week, but Eurozone shares fall 0.8%, Japanese shares down 2.8% and Australian shares down 1.6%. Chinese shares lost 0.7% on the back of People's Bank [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw share markets break higher helped by solid global economic data, good US earnings results and optimism that Donald Trump's policies will help boost the US economy. In particular the US share market rose 1%, pushing it out of a range it's been in since mid-December and propelling the Dow Jones index above 20,000. Eurozone shares rose 0.5%, Japanese shares rose 1.7% and Chinese and Australian shares both gained [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw shares fall a bit, further correcting some of the large gains seen since November amidst nervousness ahead of Donald Trump's takeover as US President. US shares dipped just 0.1%, Eurozone shares fell 0.6%, Japanese shares lost 0.8% and Australian shares fell 1.2%. Chinese shares managed to rise 1.1%, helped by good economic data. Bond yields backed up a little, commodity prices were mixed and the US$ fell slightly, [...]