A flat week – and a flattening yield curve?
April 30, 2018A common thread running through our market reports over the past few weeks is that investors should be keeping a close eye on developments in the US bond market, where the 10-year Treasury had been flirting with the 3% mark...
Read MoreA week of two halves
April 23, 2018When Donald Trump assumed office as US president last January, the world braced itself for a trade war that he had promised with China. When none materialized in the subsequent months, markets drew a sigh of relief and turned their...
Read MoreA week of STI resilience despite US trade flip-flops, political turmoil and Middle East worries
April 16, 2018Trying to gauge where stock markets might head is a notoriously difficult business without having to factor in a US President who flip-flops as often as Donald Trump. Markets spent last week – as they did the week before -...
Read MoreChaotic week as trade war fears dominate
April 9, 2018When Donald Trump assumed office as US president last January, the world braced itself for a trade war that he had promised with China. When none materialized in the subsequent months, markets drew a sigh of relief and turned their...
Read MoreHeightened volatility is the “new normal”
April 2, 2018Over the course of the month of March the Straits Times Index registered a loss of 90 points or 2.6% at 3,427.97. Thanks mainly to Thursday’s 45-points rise, the index’s first quarter performance was a gain of 25 points or...
Read MoreTrade wars + privacy breaches + more Trump resignations/sackings = more volatility
March 26, 2018When Donald Trump assumed office as US president last January, the world braced itself for a trade war that he had promised with China. When none materialized in the subsequent months, markets drew a sigh of relief and turned their...
Read MoreTrade wars + privacy breaches + more Trump resignations/sackings = more volatility
March 26, 2018In the meantime, Mr Trump’s withdrawal of the US from the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) agreement was dismissed as having not much consequence for the country. About 14 months after Mr Trump came into...
Read MoreAll eyes on FOMC and its accompanying statement
March 19, 2018The week just past lived up to expectations when trading here and on Wall Street underwent large bouts of volatility following uncertainty created by US President Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum. However, what was unexpected was one of the...
Read MoreTrade war worries + Cohn’s resignation = more volatility
March 12, 2018Last week’s trading picked up where it left off the week before – towards the downside because of US President Trump’s announcement on 2 March of import tariffs on steel and aluminum, an announcement which kindled fears of a global...
Read MoreTrade war, inflation and interest rate concerns to set tone in FOMC month
March 5, 2018The central feature of February’s trading in equity markets was that of a complacent Wall Street shaken by a sudden surge of worry over the pace of interest rate hikes which then led to a spike up in volatility. Although...
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