Market Update
Weekly Market Review
In the recent months, inflation has increased, despite this the CPI figures are still close to zero. This suggests a good environment for commodities. There has also been an improvement in the supply/demand balance in the recent months, but a peak in the value of the US dollar and an improvement in China would serve…
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Weekly market update
Currently the emerging markets are facing market crisis, just similar to the one witnessed in 1997. However, this time there will be a higher impact on the developed markets. This is because economic growth and global trade will be affected by lower purchasing power in emerging markets and commodity and other goods markets will be…
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Weekly Market Review
Last week, Dow Jones fell 1,089 points within minutes of Monday’s opening bell and on the other hand S&P closed 3.9% up on Wednesday, its biggest daily gain since November 2011. This lead to global equity markets experiencing one of the biggest fluctuations between ‘risk off’ to ‘risk on’. The commodity markets also felt the…
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The Global economic slowdown and market volatility
The Chinese economy Slowdown: The Chinese currency has devalued, which has led investors concerned about further devaluing of the currency, despite the People’s Bank of China’s assurance that there is no basis for sustained yuan depreciation. The manufacturing activity in China has also reduced at its fastest rate in more than 6 years. Economic indicators…
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Review for first week of August
August started with emerging market equities continuing to struggle in dollar terms. While the Japanese and European equities supported the global equity markets; small caps and growth were outperformed by defensive large cap sectors. The oil rig count (rough proxy for activity in the industry) rose for the third time in a month. There was…
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The end of July
The recovery in foreign trade and an increase in consumer spending in the second quarter (April – June) has helped the economy of United States to grow at an annualized rate of 2.3%. The interest rates were left between 0 – 0.25% by the Federal Reserve. According to the Federal Open Market Committee the target…
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