Weekly Market Summary.

Following Mike Pence’s (the US Vice President) comments at last weekend’s APEC summit, talk of a new cold trade war between the US and China dominated […]

Brexit obviously took centre stage this week and while the media’s portrayal of all the Brexit fandango has been that Theresa May’s draft deal was ‘dead […]

The media has been in a frenzy all week. Hot off the ‘excitement’ that there will be a Spice Girls reunion tour, interest in the US […]

After an arguably healthy pullback in US markets in October, global markets have started November in a positive fashion; ending this week higher ahead of the […]

The aim of the Fed’s current monetary tightening cycle should be to cool down (not contract) the US economy (the world’s largest economy) – i.e. it […]

While there wasn’t an awful lot of fresh information in the Fed minutes (the US economy is performing well, but the labour market is tightening), policymakers […]

As you can see from the accompanying table, it hasn’t been a pretty week, as a sea of red hit equity markets. This was predominately due […]

What started out as a reasonably positive, risk-on week thanks to progress on trade agreements, ended up being disappointing by the time the closing bell rang […]

Beyond the political spectacle on Capitol Hill, the biggest event this week was Wednesday’s (26 September 2018) US Fed interest rate decision. US policymakers increased interest […]

There was a lot of news flow this week and equity markets responded positively, the US touched record highs whilst China and Japan posted their best […]