FinSec Post

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets were mixed over the past week with good economic data propelling the US share market to record highs and hopes of more ECB stimulus helping in Europe, but with soft data and profits weighing in Japan and Australia and increased Ukraine tensions on stepped up Russian involvement weighing across the board. US shares gained 0.8% and Eurozone shares rose 2.4% but Japanese shares fell 0.7%, Chinese shares fell 1.1% and [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Despite slight falls in US and European shares on Friday on the back of slightly less dovish comments from US Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Janet Yellen and renewed tensions regarding Ukraine, share markets continued to move up over the past week as a whole helped by a combination of good economic data in the US, expectations that central banks will remain supportive and as geopolitics took a back seat for most of [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets moved higher over the last week as some soft economic data highlighted the need for continued easy global monetary conditions and as geopolitical risks receded a bit. The Australian share market was also supported by good profit results. US and European shares rose 1.2%, Japanese shares gained 3.7%, Chinese shares rose 1.5% and the Australian share market rose 2.4%. Bond yields fell, with the German bond yields falling 10 basis [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week The share market correction continued over the last week with a whole range of issues weighing on confidence including Russian retaliatory sanctions, increased fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, US air strikes on northern Iraq, poor data in Europe, strong data in the US continuing to feed Fed tightening fears and even the latest Ebola virus outbreak. Through the week European shares fell 2.5%, Japanese shares fell 4.8% and Australian shares [...]