by Admin_CentW | Jan 31, 2020 | Economic Updates
Investment markets and key developments over the past week Equity markets continued to weaken over the week as the number of Coronavirus cases increased. While the Chinese and Hong Kong markets are closed for Lunar New Year, Japanese stocks were down by 2%,...
by Admin_CentW | Jan 24, 2020 | Economic Updates
Investment markets and key developments over the past week This week equity markets were knocked around with worries about a flu pandemic spreading from China. Asian equities were the hardest hit, with Chinese shares down 3.6%, Japan 1.1% lower, Euro stocks...
by Admin_CentW | Jan 17, 2020 | Economic Updates
Investment markets and key developments over the past week The solid rally in sharemarkets since the beginning of the year continued this week with US (up by 1.6% over the week) and Australian shares hitting a record high (+2.1% this week) as investor optimism...
by Admin_CentW | Jan 16, 2020 | Newsletters
Introduction Our high-level investment view for this year is that a combination of improving global growth boosting profits and still easy monetary conditions will help drive reasonable investment returns, albeit more modest than the very strong gains of 2019....
by Admin_CentW | Jan 10, 2020 | Economic Updates
Investment markets and key developments over the past week After a bit of uncertainty and volatility early in the week, share markets pushed sharply higher as the US and Iran appeared to step back from escalating their conflict. This saw US shares push to a new...