Market Update 26 April 2019

Market Update 26 April 2019

  Investment markets and key developments over the past week   Share markets were mixed over the last week. US shares rose 1.2% to a new record high, helped by good earnings news and rising energy shares on the back of high oil prices. Japanese shares rose...
Market Update 18 April 2019

Market Update 18 April 2019

Source: Bloomberg, FXStreet, AMP Capital   Investment markets and key developments over the past week   Global equity markets were generally up over the week, apart from the US (down 0.1%) dragged down by health care stocks because of concern around...
Market Update 12 April 2019

Market Update 12 April 2019

Source: Bloomberg, FXStreet, AMP Capital   Investment markets and key developments over the past week   Global share markets fell slightly over the last week on global growth concerns and renewed US/Europe trade war fears. Australian shares rose though...
Inflation undershoots in Australia – why it’s a concern, is the RBA running out of ammo & what it means for investors?

The 2019 Australian Federal election and investors

The Federal Election   Some might be forgiven for thinking the wheels have fallen off Australian politics over the past decade with the same number of PM changes as Italy, a fractured Senate and “minority government” at times making sensible visionary long-term...