Weekly Market Summary.

Wednesday (10 April 2019) should have been an important day for financial markets as we had the release of the Fed minutes from its surprisingly dovish […]

April got underway boosted by economic data which reinforces our Goldilocks view (reasonable economic growth and lacklustre inflation). Chinese PMI data last Sunday (31 March 2019), […]

It is always interesting to look at how markets respond to economic data: last week’s PMI data from Germany and France has raised concerns about global […]

Whilst in terms of outcomes, global politics and central bank offerings have been relatively subdued this week, it is this news that has been prevalent. Following […]

Obviously Brexit has taken centre stage in the UK as it was another week of drama in Westminster, with Theresa May suffering multiple defeats. However, rather […]

The week has been remarkably subtle given it feels plenty has happened… yet not a lot has ‘actually’ happened!

As we speculated three weeks ago (please see here), Donald Trump this week said he would delay implementing US tariff increases planned for today (Friday 1 […]

All attention this week was on the Fed minutes after Jay Powell, the Fed Chairman said last month that the Fed would “be patient” on the […]

The improving prospects for a US/China trade deal and an agreement to avoid another US government shutdown allowed global equity markets to chalk up some pretty […]

It has been a bit of an uneventful week as a number of markets in Asia have been closed for various days due to Lunar New […]