Investment

Investment markets and key developments over the past week It was another volatile week for global shares with strength into the Fed meeting, partly in anticipation of the Fed leaving interest rates on hold, and then European and US shares completely reversing their gains as the Fed provided a reminder about China and emerging market driven global growth worries. This saw US shares fall 0.2% for the week, Eurozone shares down 0.6% and Japanese shares down 1.1%. Chinese shares also fell [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week China's rollercoaster Share market has been the main drama. The Shanghai Composite Index suffered a painful -8.9% fall during the week before managing to rebound with a remarkable +5% overall gain. However, from the peak set on June 12, the Shanghai Composite has declined by nearly 25% in the past month.Is this a major crisis for the Chinese economy? China's share market needs to be placed in context. Most Chinese consumers have [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week The Greek saga continues. After getting a lot closer on a deal but then failing to quite get there, Greek PM Tsipras has now called a referendum for July 5 on the latest offer from Greece's creditors. This will probably pass with polls indicating two thirds of Greeks want to stay in the Euro, and around 56% saying that this should be the case even if it involves a bad deal with [...]

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets have had a mixed week with messy US earnings, soft US gross domestic product (GDP) data and worries about the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and Greece weighing on US shares (-2.8%) and Eurozone shares (-0.6%), Chinese stocks continuing to go through a bit of a correction (with a 3.9% fall) but Japanese shares (+0.9%) and Australian shares (+1.6%) seeing gains. Bond yields mostly fell. Oil had a bounce from oversold [...]

      Investment markets and key developments over the past week The "risk off" tone in markets continued over the past week with mixed US economic data and earnings results along with a continuing fall in oil prices early in the week maintaining downwards pressure on US shares which fell 1.2% for the week, Japanese shares which fell 1.9% and Australian shares which lost 3%. Bonds benefitted from a flight to safety and deflation worries with yields continuing to fall. [...]