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US Markets continued to rally, with equities tested record highs and bond yields tumbling. Market confidence is high, with the Federal Reserve expected to cut rates overnight and once again before Christmas. The Trump tour of Asia is calming any global trade tensions and markets are loving it.
Read more →US equity markets keep building on new record highs, boosted by sentiment, as President Trump tours Asia. President Trump has visited Malaysia and Japan, before attending APEC in South Korea.
Read more →Markets opened the week confidently, in what promises to be a very productive week, following last week’s gains. The US inflation number was cool enough, to ensure a Fed rate cut this week.
Read more →US equity markets surged on the Friday close, sparked by the cooler than expected inflation number, released Friday. The CPI number was the only Government statistic released in another week of Government shutdown.
Read more →Markets continue to reflect confidence, with equities bouncing around record highs, while bond yields drift lower. There remains a dearth of US economic data, due to the Government lockdown, that is now extending to the second longest in history.
Read more →China/US trade speculation continues to dominate markets, with little in the way of economic data releases coming from the US, down to the extended US Government shutdown.
Read more →Equity markets across Asia, Europe and the US reflect growing confidence and trade around record levels. The positive talk regarding China-US trade and the coming meeting between President Trump and Xi, at AIPEC, has settled many nerves.
Read more →Global equity markets surged at the open of the new week, with strong GDP and Industrial Production data coming out of China and a coalition Government announced in Japan. The Bank of China left rates unchanged, while other markets await inflation data.
Read more →Markets closed out a volatile week, on a positive note, with all US bourses closing higher. A week rocked by reignited trade tensions, between China and the US, was calmed by rhetoric by the end of the week.
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