by Admin_CentW | Feb 23, 2018 | Economic Updates
Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets continued to recover over the last week. While initially coming under pressure from ongoing worries about inflation and the US Federal Reserve (the Fed), US shares rose sharply on...
by Admin_CentW | Feb 21, 2018 | Newsletters
The period since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has seemed unusual in the sense that periodic crises and post GFC caution prevented the global economy from overheating and excesses building, in turn preventing the return of the conventional economic cycle. Many of...
by Admin_CentW | Feb 16, 2018 | Economic Updates
Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets rebounded over the last week, as share investors became a bit more relaxed about the prospect of higher inflation and interest rates and the unwinding of ‘short’ volatility trades ran its...
by Admin_CentW | Feb 14, 2018 | Newsletters
If Australia has an Achille’s heal it’s the high and still rising level of household debt that has gone hand in hand with the surge in house prices relative to incomes. Whereas several comparable countries have seen their household debt to income ratios pull back a...
by Admin_CentW | Feb 9, 2018 | Economic Updates
Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets had another rough week as the worries around rising inflation and bond yields and a more aggressive Fed continued to impact. While US shares had a good bounce on Friday, for the week they fell...