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Global equities enjoyed a second successive week of gains, reflecting a good start to the Q3 U.S. earnings reporting season and a U.S. consumer price index report that was at least not a lot worse than feared….
Freedom Day!
Global markets
Global equities bounced back last week reflecting an 11th hour deal in Washington to kick the debt ceiling can down the road until early December. Such is the likely short-run oversold nature of equity markets,…
Tech wreck
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Global markets
A month or so ago the main worry on global markets was that there didn’t seem much to worry about (i.e….
Bond worries
Global markets
Fair to say it was a mixed week for global equities, with Wall Street slumping initially only to then more than recover lost ground over the remainder of the week….
Stagflation
Global markets
U.S. stocks sagged last week – absent any clear trigger – reflecting general concerns with a combination of weakening growth due to delta, but also persistent pricing pressures due to lingering supply bottlenecks,…
Softening up
Global markets
Global equities bounced back last week reflecting a relatively dovish speech by Fed chair Powell at Jackson Hole on Friday. The key takeaway from the speech was that the condition of “substantial further progress”…
Recession risks depend on the vaccine rollout
Next week’s June quarter GDP result will be the first test of whether Australia can avoid a double dip technical recession this year. Due to lockdowns in New South Wales and Victoria,…
Delta delay?
Global Markets
Global equities suffered a setback last week as minutes from the latest Fed meeting suggested it was closer to “tapering” its bond purchases somewhat earlier than anticipated. Specifically, the minutes indicated “most”…
Low wages likely rules out RBA bond tapering
Today’s lower than expected wage price index result only highlights the challenges facing the Reserve Bank in attempting to get wage inflation up to the 3 to 4% p.a. levels considered consistent with it’s 2 to 3% inflation target. …
Grinding on
Global markets
Global equities continued to grind higher last week reflecting ongoing solid corporate earnings and still relatively benign bond yields. Indeed, lingering fears with regard to the potential impact of delta on economic growth are likely helping offset fears which may otherwise have arisen from strong U.S….
$A to test US68c
Global markets
Global equities pushed onwards last week as solid U.S. earnings and economic reports outweighed concerns with regard to eventual Fed tapering and the pesky delta variant. Although U.S. July manufacturing indices were a touch weaker than expected,…