Weekly market update – week ending 29 November, 2019

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets rose over the last week helped by optimism regarding a US/China trade deal and mostly okay economic data with... Read more continue reading

Insight Multi-Asset update – week beginning 25 November, 2019

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Market and economic review With little data to focus on in the early part of last week, and following on from our recent updates, markets continued to be dominated by... Read more continue reading

Record weekly lift in national petrol price

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Weekly petrol prices  Petrol prices: According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average price of unleaded petrol rose by a record 10.9 cents last week to a 4-week... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 22 November, 2019

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Most share markets fell over the last week as uncertainty about whether the US and China will agree a Phase One... Read more continue reading

Global growth to grind lower amid the new age of uncertainty

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Continued friction from the US/China trade war, the ongoing Brexit saga and broad political uncertainty have translated to further muted expectations for global growth according to the latest research from... Read more continue reading

Listed Infrastructure progresses in an uncertain environment and slowing global economy

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Listed infrastructure equities moved higher in October in what RARE Infrastructure and others continue to describe as a late-cycle environment. “Both our global listed infrastructure Value and Income Funds showed... Read more continue reading

Insight multi-asset update – week beginning 18 November, 2019

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Market and economic review Developments in the US-China trade war continued to dominate market performance, with equities and bonds reacting to contrasting news flow. As a whole, equity performance was... Read more continue reading

Aussie QE may be coming, but it will probably do nothing

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Over the past 18 months, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has changed tack from “the next move in interest rates is up” [i] to a dovish bias. So much... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 15 November, 2019

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week saw some cautiousness creep back into share markets with increased uncertainty about a US/China trade deal coming at... Read more continue reading

Western Asset makes the case for continued global resilience

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Western Asset, a Legg Mason affiliate, in it’s Q4 Global Outlook, breaks down the factors driving the global economy and makes the case for continued global resilience. The Western Asset... Read more continue reading