By Lachlan Meakin Major Indices took a breather last week, with US equity markets closing down more than 1% after posting record highs the week prior. In economic news, the incoming US administration announced a $1.9 USD trillion fiscal-stimulus p...
Read MoreBy Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Global equities swung between losses and gains last week as investors digested contradictory headlines on key themes like Brexit negotiations, vaccine updates, stimulus talks and EU budget deal driving the pric...
Read MoreBy Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Amid the optimism related to vaccine approvals and distributions, Europe will stand out this week with a busy economic calendar - ZEW surveys, ECB interest rate decision and the EU Summit. Equity markets Inve...
Read MoreBy Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets After a month-long rally in November which drove major equity indexes to record-highs, investors started the last month of the year with controversial vaccine approval and supply-chain issues. Stock marke...
Read MoreBy Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets As investors are about to enter the final month of the pandemic year 2020, the attention will remain on the vaccine updates, Brexit and the global economic data to gauge the recovery which has the potential to ...
Read MoreBy Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets As the world is heading into a holiday season still rattled by the widespread pandemic in major economies, it will be a shortened week for investors in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. The imme...
Read MoreBy Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Investors welcomed the series of positive vaccine updates across the week against the backdrop of the rapid global surge in the number of coronavirus cases. The sentiment in the financial markets swayed between...
Read MoreBy Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets The incumbent President Donald Trump is yet to concede, but former Vice-President is already preparing for his presidency. It is rare for an incumbent President to lose re-election given their ability to influe...
Read MoreBy Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets As widely expected, the focus was on the most-awaited political event of the year - US Presidential Election. It is the global event that may potentially affect the global economy, alliances and trade agreement...
Read MoreBy Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Without any doubt, the event of the week will be the US election which will take place on Tuesday, the 3rd of November 2020. Amid a busy economic calendar, we will also see more central banks holding their poli...
Read MoreBy Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Investors are gearing up for an eventful week with plenty of economic data, big tech earnings and geopolitical events. The predominant themes remain the US election, Brexit negotiations, central banks guidance ...
Read MoreBy Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Risk sentiment remained dampened last week following the chaotic US stimulus negotiations, Brexit woes and the resurgence of coronavirus cases in some parts of the world while vaccine trials suffered major setb...
Read MoreBy Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets It was another wild week driven by geopolitics and COVID-19 updates. Risk sentiment remains fragile dragged by the chaotic US stimulus negotiations, Brexit woes and the resurgence of coronavirus cases in some p...
Read MoreBy Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets After a wild last week where markets swung from risk-on to risk-off sentiment following the back and forth chaos on stimulus, the attention is expected to remain highly geared towards the US election outcome. ...
Read MoreBy Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets The week kickstarted with the concerns over the health of the US President to progress with conflicting signs on stimulus negotiations. It was another volatile week as markets sentiment flip flop back and forth...
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