Morning Shot
18th September 17
Japan is away for a national holiday today but the rest of the Asian equities traded higher overnight, following a record breaking session for Wall St. last Friday. Commodities markets in general ...
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Japan is away for a national holiday today but the rest of the Asian equities traded higher overnight, following a record breaking session for Wall St. last Friday. Commodities markets in general ...
Read More15th September 17
What a week! This week did not disappoint in terms of macroeconomic news. The Bank of England got themselves in a right muddle and completely U-turned over policy compared to remarks heard in August....
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Most of the Asian indices are trading in the red after a missile test from North Korea pushed the markets into a risk off sentiment. Interestingly the Nikkei was the only one in the black after the ...
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Going into the MPC announcement later this morning, no-one is expecting any change in policy, nor should they - now or indeed any time soon. We would expect this view to be shared by the broade...
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Overnight data from Asia was mixed, Australian employment change data came in higher than expectations but Chinese industrial production was disappointing. This led Asian bourses lower ...
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The worlds major indices are mixed this morning, the US closed positive and Asia is mixed with the Nikkei higher off the back of back of a weaker JPY and the ASX is down as commodities struggle. Of n...
Read More12th September 17
Yesterday's risk on sentiment sent the US indices higher by an average of 1% and this sentiment carried through till Asia. Once again this was attributed to the easing of geopolitical tensions a...
Read More11th September 17
After the US ended last week mixed, Asian bourses have opened this mostly positive with the ASX up 0.71% and the Nikkei 1.43%. Some analysts have contributed this too the hurricane in the US not bein...
Read More8th September 17
A week of central bank rate decisions drove the financial markets this week. RBA (Australian), RBC (Canadian) and the ECB (Eurozone) central banks all met and it was a real mix bag, in Australia the ...
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The government has published its action plan, following a public consultation that was notably biased towards what ministers originally planned to do. This was principally to curb excessive exe...
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US bourses closed mixed yesterday with only the Nasdaq closing in the black, Asian markets all trade in the red as data from Japan took its toll on the markets, Japanese GDP Q/Q and Y/Y both came in ...
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Asia looks like its following the US with higher closes from the major indices, China is the only nation to buck the trend as the Shanghai Comp. is down 0.36%. The bullish sentiment came in the marke...
Read More6th September 17
US indices closed lower by an average of 0.90% yesterday as Fed speak, geopolitical news and risk sentiment dragged markets lower. In Asia, the major bourses followed suit with the Shanghai Comp. ASX...
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The American bourses shrugged off the negative sentiment to close higher yesterday by an average of 0.15%, Asia followed suit with the exception on Japan with the Nikkei lower by 0.64%. due to the st...
Read More4th September 17
Asian Pac markets trade mixed this morning with Chinese bourses higher and ASX and Nikkei lower. The main event from the weekend was the successful test of a H bomb by North Korea and this will clear...
Read More1st September 17
Another jam packed week this week, we have had ECB, NFP and GDP. Let’s start in the UK and the continues problems with Brexit, Barnier and Macron this week have stated that the numbers flo...
Read More1st September 17
The prime driver of company share prices, over the appropriate longer term is profit – with an expectation that dividend income can combat local inflation. This blog has been monitoring the per...
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On the last day of the month the Asian and US indices enjoyed a good session. This came as sentiment was lifted by treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and also Chinese Caixin Manufacturing PMI whic...
Read More31st August 17
US bourses closed higher yesterday with the tech heavy Nasdaq leading the way and this all stemmed from the good GDP figure from the US. Asia followed suit and the Nikkei and ASX both trade higher bu...
Read More30th August 17
So-called because these are businesses which are currently unprofitable but have the potential to earn a lot of money. This blog tends to leave the bulletin boards (described more politely on LSE.co....
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