FinSec Post

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets rebounded over the last week helped by benign economic data and China's confirmation of policy stimulus. US and Eurozone shares rose 2.9%, Japanese shares gained 2% and Chinese shares rose 2.4%. Australian shares fell 0.5% though, with consumer and financial shares down on worries about the economy. Bond yields were basically flat in Germany & Japan but fell in the US and the Australian 10-year bond yield fell below 2% [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Major global share markets fell over the last week on worries about global growth, with US shares down 2.2%, Eurozone shares down 1.3%, Japanese shares losing 2.7% and Chinese shares down 2.5%. Australian shares pushed 0.2% higher though on increasing expectations for rate cuts offsetting, for now, the negative impact of slowing growth. Bond yields fell as the ECB announced more monetary easing and on growth worries. Commodity prices were mixed, with metals [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week While US shares fell slightly over the last week (with geopolitical noise not helping most major share markets) Australian shares continued to rise, arguably playing catch up to the rally in US shares. The Australian share market was led higher by health, IT, banks and industrial shares.Bond yields generally rose as did oil and metals, but iron ore prices continued to retrace some of the Vale accident driven rally. The $A fell [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets continued to rise over the last week helped by good news regarding US/China trade talks. US shares rose 0.6%, Eurozone shares gained 0.8%, Japanese shares rose 2.5% and Chinese shares rose 5.4%. Australian shares rose 1.7% helped by reasonable earnings results, more talk of rate cuts and upgrades to earnings growth expectations for resources stocks on the back of higher commodity prices. Bond yields were flat to down a little bit. [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets were little changed or down over the past week, not helped by weak economic data and trade uncertainty. US shares rose less than 0.1%, Eurozone shares fell 1.2% and Japanese shares lost 1.6%. Australian shares saw a strong 3.6% gain though, as the banks had a ‘Royal Commission relief rally’; the prospect of Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) rate cuts provided a boost to retailers; industrial stocks, yield-sensitives and [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets were mixed over the last week. US shares rose 1.6%, helped by a more dovish and supportive Fed and mostly good economic and earnings news, Chinese shares gained 2% helped by continuing progress in US/China trade talks and Japanese shares rose 0.1%, but Eurozone shares fell 0.1% and Australian shares fell 0.7%. Bond yields mostly declined, helped along by a dovish Fed. Commodity prices rose with the iron ore price getting [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets pulled back a bit over the last week on the back of trade and growth worries, but the Australian share market managed a small rise led by consumer stocks and yield sensitive utilities and real estate shares. Bond yields fell, helped by a dovish ECB. Commodity prices mostly fell and the $US rose and this saw the $A decline helped down by increasing expectations of lower interest rates in Australia. [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets continued to rise over the last week helped by talk of policy stimulus (notably in China) and optimism of a resolution to the US/China trade dispute. Bond yields rose in the US but were little changed elsewhere, commodity prices including oil rose and the $US rose slightly which saw the $A fall slightly. After a great rally since Christmas with US shares up 11%, global shares up 10% and Australian shares [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Since the last weekly update three weeks ago investment markets have been on a bit of a roller coaster ride, with Santa missing Christmas for markets but arriving the day after. Global shares led by the US continued to plunge into Christmas as the US saw the start of a partial government shutdown taking the decline in the US share market to 19.8% from its September high. But since Christmas share markets have [...]