Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 06, 2022
Chinese stocks rose in line with global markets amid supportive official comments and a perception that the country’s regulatory crackdown cycle had peaked.
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Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 04, 2022
Fed Chair Jerome Powell left open the possibility that global markets policymakers would raise rates in 2022 more than the three quarter-point hikes they had signalled after their December meeting
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 52, 2021
2021 was a better-than-average year for global markets. Stock market returns, economic growth, policy stimulus and inflation all ran hot while volatility was historically cool.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 51, 2021
In light of the improving global economic outlook, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) may be positioned to end its quantitative easing (QE) initiatives after its February policy meeting.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 50, 2021
All eyes across global markets were on the Fed last week as the market awaited the latest policy decision and outlook – a decision that drew particular attention given the inflation environment.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 49, 2021
Global markets were mixed this week, with downs at the beginning of the week with equity markets later rebounding, after two weeks of losses.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 48, 2021
Investors across global markets were set for lots of reactions during the week. On top of the list was the Omicron variant of the coronavirus and the massive lockdowns which various countries have imposed, also with the travel restrictions. Cruise and commercial airlines stood out to be the most hit. The United States. In a …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 47, 2021
Chinese markets weakened in line with other global markets, with the CSI index easing 0.6% and the Shanghai Composite Index ending flat amid U.S.-China tensions and rising economic pressures that raised expectations for supportive government measures.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 46, 2021
Global markets are up roughly 25% so far this year, and its path to get here has been nearly stumble-free, with just one 5% dip along the way.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 45, 2021
The week ended mixed for global markets backed by inflation concerns and the risks of default from Chinese real estate companies led by China Evergrande and Kaisa Holdings Limited.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 44, 2021
November started off on solid footing for global markets, with equity markets logging their best weekly return in more than four months.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 41, 2021
Global markets remained positive during the week as investors kept a keen watch on the earnings reports and also a view on various economic reports from the globe.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 39, 2021
Global markets were mixed but mostly lower as inflation concerns hit various central banks after the hits of the Evergrande crisis which has rocked China and looked to be throwing the global real estate sector in awe.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 38, 2021
Global markets were mixed this week, as many analysts comprehended the possible impact of China’s Evergrande Group into a global financial abyss. With no shortage of headlines to worry about, volatility made a comeback last week after being dormant for most of the past six months. United States The major benchmarks overcame an early sell-off …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 37, 2021
Global markets were mixed this week as various economic development from various markets across the markets, in the news was the fear over the possible collapse of Chinese real estate firm, Evergrande.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 35, 2021
Global Markets were mixed this week as data from various fronts; from the U.S jobs data which was released on Friday and the growing anxiety over the shifting Fed policy adding new wrinkles to various analysts across various global markets. United States The benchmark indexes for the top global market ended the week mixed after …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 34, 2021
Global market headlines swung squarely to Fed policy and geopolitical uncertainties last week, while swings in the stock market remained narrow, continuing August’s tranquil trend. United States Stocks gained as full Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine supported sentiment toward an ongoing economic recovery. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index outperformed …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 33, 2021
U.S Stocks, looked on as the global market’s benchmark pulled back for the week but not before the S&P 500 Index reached a new record high of 4,480 on Monday afternoon, more than double its intraday low of 2,192 on March 23, 2020
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 32, 2021
Global markets were mixed for a second week running, with data indicating that markets from the west were trading higher while markets in Asia whipsawed through days of decline as Chinese traders remained cautious on concerns of a crackdown on various sectors by the regulators of the world’s largest economy. Apart from this, there …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 31, 2021
Global Markets touched new highs again last week, with the latest jobs report reflecting the broadly favourable fundamental backdrop. We think the music will play on for this bull market, but the experiences of 1994 and 2010 highlight the potential for the record to skip. Given the parallels, here are a few lessons for investors …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 30, 2021
Global markets were on the mixed this week. A slew of corporate earnings reports, economic data, a Fed meeting, and the regulatory-induced sell-off in Chinese equities made the last week of July the busiest one this summer. There was a lot of push and pull, with equities finishing slightly lower to where they started the …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 29, 2021
Global markets were mixed but mostly higher with most markets experiencing pullbacks, which have been infrequent and short-lived as strong economic growth, positive investor sentiment, and extreme amounts of Fed liquidity have combined to produce elevated gains with limited drawdowns along the way United States Stocks ended the week higher, rebounding from a sell-off on …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 28, 2021
Global Markets were mixed, majority of them loosing ground last week yet remain in a steady and mostly uninterrupted uptrend since the beginning of the year.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 27, 2021
Global markets had to offer a bit of everything for investors, from labor market readings to Federal Reserve minutes to rising uncertainties around COVID variants and their implications for global growth.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 26, 2021
Shares in Europe were down slightly, a surprise on global markets but backed on worries that inflationary pressures, seen across major markets globally might bring forward interest rate increases.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 25, 2021
Banxico, Mexico’s central bank, surprised global market observers by raising its key lending rate by a quarter percentage point to 4.25%.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 24, 2021
Global markets were on the low as a surprisingly hawkish outcome from the Federal Reserve’s June 15–16 policy meeting and late-week comments from a Fed official about potentially earlier-than-expected rate hikes dragging markets globally reverse some of their post-pandemic gains. United States The Dow includes many cyclical companies—those most reliant on global economic growth. On …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 23, 2021
Global markets were mixed during the week as investors reacted to various economic data from both the U.S Consumer price index and also various economic data from china and from the middle east. Investors were keen to watching also the developments from two Iranian Warships that had for the first time crossed into the Atlantic, …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 22, 2021
Global markets experienced a lift during the week buoyed by the United State’s May employment report which showed job growth was improving, but not as quickly as anticipated by analysts. Investors were also looking at the growing coronavirus infections globally and the various measures China was taking to curb various financial vices in the country.. …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 21, 2021
Global markets traded fairly mixed this week as most markets as investors watched on various economic data from the United States with relation to Inflation and also data from China and Japan on unemployment and various economic data. Market also looked at Mexico on the South America’s and also general data from the expansion of …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 20, 2021
Global markets were mixed during the week as various economic news streamed in. Inflation news seems to be taking global outlook from all angles of the investors and could turn out to be a very popular word in the investment vernacular this year
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 19, 2021
On the global markets front, telecommunications and internet conglomerate SoftBank Group posted the highest-ever annual net profit for a Japanese company.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 18, 2021
Shares in Europe climbed on stronger-than-expected earnings results and growing confidence in a global economic recovery. In local currency terms, the pan-European STOXX Europe 600 Index ended the week 1.72% higher.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 16, 2021
Despite a brief global markets rally on Thursday, it was a disappointing week for Japanese equity markets—weighed down by weakness across all sectors as the government enhanced its response to tackle surging coronavirus cases.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 15, 2021
Shares in Europe rose to follow other global markets on hopes of a strong recovery in the global economy and corporate earnings, despite a resurgence in coronavirus infections
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 14, 2021
Global markets hit record highs on Tuesday, supported by strong economic data from China and the US, while currency and bond markets paused for breath after a month of rapid gains in the dollar and treasury yields.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 13, 2021
Global markets were moving this week, with the major highlights of the holiday shortened week being the global consumer confidence increasing to its highest level since the onset of the corona virus pandemic. What stole investors spotlight was U.S President Joe Biden’s sweeping infrastructure proposal, which has the potential to shape the fiscal and tax …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 12, 2021
Global markets rose during the week all through to Friday while safe havens such as the dollar and U.S. Treasuries dipped as hopes for a global economic recovery overshadowed the continued blockage of the Suez Canal.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 11, 2021
Major Global market indices continued their gaining streak this week, with some touching record highs early in the week, some of them however later lost ground as bond yields reached their highest levels in over a year in the United States and the growing resurgence of concerns of the coronavirus pandemic in some parts of …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 10, 2021
Global markets touched new highs last week as optimism over the global economic recovery continued to fuel market rallies. A tame inflation report and a respite in the recent upward ascent in interest rates were also some of the top contributing factors in the market’s gains, but the headliner was the passage of the American …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 09, 2021
Global markets continued to trade on moved by central banks as investors looked to oversee the correlation between the stock market and interest rates, picking up from last week, with rates temporarily coming out on top as yields moved up and stocks pulled back. United States The major benchmarks finished mixed as longer-term interest rates …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 07, 2021
Global stocks set new highs again this week with a myriad of factors grabbing a piece of the spotlight, including Congressional hearings aimed at deciphering the recent GameStop trading frenzy.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 06, 2021
Global Markets finished modestly positive for the week on strong earnings growth and the increasing likelihood of additional fiscal stimulus.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 05, 2021
Global markets posted their best weekly gain since November, with major indexes closing at fresh record highs. Fiscal-stimulus expectations and progress on vaccine distribution continue to underpin the bullish market narrative. Crude oil traded to the highest levels in more than a year, logging an almost 10% gain for the week. United States The major …
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 04, 2021
Global Markets logged one of the largest weekly loss in three months last week as volatile trading in certain pockets of the market continued, raising concerns about speculative excesses.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 03, 2021
Global markets finished the week slightly off record highs, as investors continue to balance positive news with near-term challenges. In focus is the $1.9 trillion fiscal-stimulus proposal from the Biden administration
Global Market Weekly Review: Week 02, 2021
Turkish stocks, as measured by the BIST-100 Index, returned about -1.0%. T. Rowe Price sovereign analyst Peter Botoucharov has been reviewing the latest macroeconomic data from Turkey and notes that the country’s external account situation remains weak.
Global Markets Weekly Review: Week 01, 2021
Mexican stocks, as measured by the IPC Index, returned about 6%. Shares were lifted in part by strength in U.S. equities, as Joe Biden—who is expected to be less aggressive on trade and immigration issues than President Trump—was certified by Congress as the winner of the November 2020 presidential election
Global Markets Weekly Review – Week 53, 2020
Investor sentiment and the lira currency also benefited from the central bank’s recent action on interest rates. Following the December 24 monetary policy meeting—at which policymakers decided to raise all three major lending rates by 200 basis points.
Global Markets Weekly Review – Week 52, 2020
Russian stocks declined early in the week amid worsening sentiment toward riskier asset classes and on news that the U.S. Department of Commerce would move to block trade in goods and services with Russian companies that have links to the Russian military
Global Markets Weekly Review – Week 51, 2020
Global markets edged higher last week, with all major benchmark global indices hitting fresh all-time highs. Fiscal-stimulus optimism in the United States, along with a brighter longer-term outlook driven by the rollout of vaccines, continues to support sentiment in the market and the general global economic environment. United States The major indexes reached record highs …
Global Markets Weekly Review – Week 50, 2020
Stocks in Brazil, as measured by the Bovespa Index, returned about 1.2%. Early in the week, Brazil reported that inflation rose 0.89% in November on a month-over-month basis.
Global Markets Weekly Review – Week 49, 2020
Turkish stocks, as measured by the BIST-100 Index, returned about 0.2%. Shares fell sharply on Monday but rebounded over the rest of the week.
Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 48, 2020
A new round of vaccine optimism and diminishing political uncertainty helped global stocks build on recent gains for the holiday-shortened week
Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 47, 2020
The South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) left the repurchase rate (repo rate) unchanged at 3.5 percent as inflation is expected to remain contained in the medium term.
Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 46, 2020
In what surely qualifies as some of the more encouraging news of the year, the announcement that a Pfizer vaccine showed promising trial results powered markets higher last week.
Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 45, 2020
Stocks in Brazil, as measured by the Bovespa Index, returned about 7.4%.
Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 44, 2020
The ECB left its monetary policy unchanged, keeping its deposit rate at -0.5% and its emergency bond-buying program at EUR 1.35 trillion
Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 43, 2020
Following three consecutive weekly advances, global stocks declined modestly during the week. The news flow was dominated by headlines around the negotiations for another round of fiscal relief from Washington before the U.S election, which is fast approaching is held. United States The major benchmarks ended mixed, as investors reacted to stimulus negotiations while monitoring …
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Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 42, 2020
Global markets were mixed but generally ended higher during the week as data on the coronavirus and various economic fronts streamed in during the week. On the global economic front, there was increased hope for a fiscal stimulus package. On the vaccine front, some trials have been paused due to health concerns, and Pfizer has …
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Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 41, 2020
Global markets were mixed during the week, posting declines earlier in the week and closing later higher, mixed with optimisms on the U.S elections and the health of the U.S President Donald Trump on the coronavirus. Global markets also posted the best weekly gain since early July, while long-term government yields rose to a four-month …
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Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 40, 2020
Chinese stocks rose slightly in a holiday-shortened week, lifted by several economic readings showing that the recovery was on track, but they ended September with their biggest monthly loss since May 2019.
Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 39, 2020
Stocks in Brazil, as measured by the Bovespa Index, returned about -1.4%. During the week, Brazil reported a solid current account surplus for the month of August
Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 38, 2020
Brazilian stocks, as measured by the Bovespa Index, were little changed for the week. On Wednesday, Brazil’s central bank decided to keep its Selic benchmark lending rate at 2%, which was generally expected
Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 37, 2020
The price of one ounce of gold was $1,946.50 by market close, down from $1,949.50 at the previous close, according to data from Borsa Istanbul’s Precious Metals and Diamond Markets.
Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 36, 2020
Chilean stocks, as measured by the IPSA Index, posted modest losses for the week as of Friday afternoon.
Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 35, 2020
Global stocks ended the week mixed, on the present prevailing macros. The MSCI’s benchmark for global equity markets rose by 0.43% to 585.73 after earlier setting a new intraday high, while stocks on Wall Street also rallied, with technology leading the way and the Dow closed to an all-time high. United States U.S Stocks continued …
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Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 34, 2020
Brazilian stocks rebounded later in the week after media reports said that President Jair Bolsonaro has no plans to fire Guedes and that Guedes does not intend to resign.
Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 33, 2020
Japan’s GDP growth is expected to contract more than 7% (26.6% annualized) in the three months ended June 30 versus the prior quarter, according to a survey of economists polled by the Japan Center for Economic Research.
Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 32, 2020
Stocks in Brazil, as measured by the Bovespa Index, returned about -0.1%. On Wednesday, the central bank reduced its benchmark lending rate, the Selic rate, from 2.25% to 2.00%.
Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 31, 2020
Investors were braced for a record RMB 1.36 trillion of restricted shares scheduled to be unlocked and available for trading in the A-share market—an influx similar to one that occurred in May and June 2015, which was followed by heavy selling of previously restricted shares by large institutional investors.
Global Markets Weekly Market Review – Week 30, 2020
The renminbi declined following the escalation in U.S.-Beijing tensions, losing 0.4% against the greenback and closing at 7.018 for the week.