by Admin_CentW | Nov 30, 2018 | Economic Updates
Investment markets and key developments over the past week US shares rose 4.8% over the last week, their strongest week since December 2011, helped by increasing signs from the Fed that it is open to pausing or slowing its interest rate increases. This...
by Admin_CentW | Nov 23, 2018 | Economic Updates
Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets remained under pressure over the past week, with many falling back to, or below, their late October lows on worries about trade, tech and energy stocks, and global growth. US shares...
by Admin_CentW | Nov 22, 2018 | Newsletters
Introduction While global and Australian shares had a nice bounce from their late October lows – rallying about 5%, partly reversing their 10% or so top to bottom fall, they have since fallen back to their lows as the worries about US rates, bond yields, trade,...
by Admin_CentW | Nov 16, 2018 | Economic Updates
Investment markets and key developments over the past week “Risk off” returned to financial markets over the past week with most share markets falling and bond yields declining as last month’s worries returned, tech stocks came under renewed pressure and...
by Admin_CentW | Nov 15, 2018 | Newsletters
Introduction A few months ago Reserve Bank Governor Phillip Lowe provided four common sense points we should all keep in mind regarding borrowing to finance a home. (The Governor’s speech can be found here). I thought they made sense and so summarised them in a...