FinSec Post

Investment markets and key developments over the past week While share markets had a great bounce from oversold levels early in the last week they fell back to varying degrees as worries around US interest rates, the US trade conflict with China, tech stocks and Italy's budget deficit continued along with escalating tensions with Saudi Arabia regarding a missing journalist. This left share markets mixed with Eurozone & Australian shares up, US shares little changed and Japanese & Chinese shares down. Bond [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets fell sharply over the last week led by the US share market primarily on the back of worries about rising interest rates and bond yields and the deteriorating US/China relationship. Bond yields generally declined though reflecting safe haven demand which also benefitted the gold price. Iron ore prices rose which is good for Australia, but the oil price fell. A fall in the US dollar saw the Australian dollar push back [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets fell over the last week, largely in response to a renewed rise in bond yields. Commodity prices rose, although this was mainly due to higher oil prices. Strong US economic data and some rise in expectations for Fed tightening saw the $US rise and this saw the $A fall below $US0.71. Bond yields have resumed their rising trend, with more upside ahead. The break higher was led by the US with the [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets were mixed over the last week with US shares down 0.5% and Eurozone shares down 1.1% on renewed worries about Italy's budget, but Japanese shares rose 1%. Chinese shares rose 0.8% and Australian shares rose 0.2%. Bond yields were little changed except in Italy where they rose on budget concerns. Oil prices rose after OPEC left output unchanged, but metal and iron prices fell. The $US rose, particularly as the Euro [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw "risk on" with the latest escalation in the US/China trade conflict being less than feared. This saw shares rally, bond yields rise, commodity prices gain, the US$ fall and the A$ rise. US shares rose 0.9%, Eurozone shares gained 2.1%, Japanese shares rose 3.4%, Chinese shares rose 5.2% and Australian shares rose 0.5%. While the Australian share market participated in the global share market rebound, over the last week [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw most share markets rise, helped by good economic data, talk of another round of US/China trade talks and a bounce in emerging market shares after Turkey raised interest rates. US shares rose 1.2%, Eurozone shares gained 1.4%, Japanese shares rose 3.5% and Australian shares rose 0.4%. However, Chinese shares remained under pressure and fell another 1.1%. Bond yields mostly rose. Commodity prices also mostly rose helped by a weaker [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw share markets fall on the back of worries around emerging markets, trade wars and the potential regulation of US social media stocks. US shares fell 1%, Eurozone shares lost 2.6%, Japanese shares fell 2.4% and Chinese shares fell 1.7%. After being resilient to global threats over the last few months, Australian shares also got hit and fell 2.8% to their lowest level since June. Bond yields generally rose, although [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw most share markets rise with US shares pushing further into record territory, but gains were capped by ongoing turmoil in the emerging world (notably Argentina and Turkey as their currencies plunged anew) and nervousness around trade, particularly ahead of the next round of US tariffs on imports from China. US shares rose 0.9%, Japanese shares gained 1.2% and Chinese shares rose 0.3%, but Eurozone shares fell 0.6% on trade [...]