Asking the Right Questions
Weekly Market Update: February 1st 2016
Market Recap Global equity markets enjoyed another positive week, buoyed by further support from the major Central Banks, this time the Bank of Japan (BOJ) with the introduction of negative interest rates. As well, speculation of a possible production cut by OPEC pushed oil…
Weekly Market Update: January 25th 2016
Market Recap After a difficult start to the week, most of the major equity indices ended the week in positive territory. As expected, ‘Super Mario’ Draghi came to the rescue for markets with reassuring comments that fuelled hope of more aggressive monetary policy from…
Weekly Market Update: January 18th 2016
Market Recap Sentiment in global equity markets last week resembled the atmosphere in Anfield yesterday after the final whistle. Like most equity investors, transfixed by the continuous stream of red as market participants rushed for the exits, Liverpool fans were left with the same…
Weekly Market Update: January 11th 2016
Market Recap Global equity markets sold off sharply last week, a repeat of what we saw in August of last year, with many of the major equity indices experiencing the worst weekly declines since 2011. Plunging oil prices and the decline in many other…
Interview Series: with Blackrock’s Adam Ryan
My latest endeavour to make the subject of financial markets and the economy more accessible to everyone is an interview series where I am intend to interview a range of fund managers, investment strategists and government officials, and to share these insights with you….
2016, we go again!
Well, we go again. Another year, new resolutions, new goals or perhaps for some a preference to just drift and lament what ‘they would do different, if they only had the time, or the money’. Whatever your current situation or perception of the world,…
Rate hike this week from the US Federal Reserve
To raise or not to raise? That has been the question for a long time now for the US Federal Reserve’s monetary policy committee. Year after year, meeting after meeting, the Fed have pushed out the timing for US rate hikes. Well, it appears…
Weekly Market Recap: W/E December 11th 2015
Market Recap Global equity markets sold off sharply last week as investors were spooked by plunging commodity prices and events in the high yield bond market, made worse by the impending rate hike from the US Federal Reserve.
Lofty Expectations: The ECB & LFC
Just as market participants were guilty of getting carried away, in terms of their expectations of the next round of monetary policy measures from the European Central Bank on Thursday, I must admit a similar guilt in being overly exuberant about Liverpool’s title hopes…
Weekly Market Recap: W/E November 27th
Market Recap Many of the major equity indices moved marginally higher last week, but Chinese equity markets closed Friday on a sour note as the local regulator launched investigations into the practices of a number of leading Chinese brokerage firms. While there has been…
