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It has been a busy week full of crucial data and economic events despite the fact a number of markets have been closed (Japanese markets were closed all week; Chinese markets were closed for three days and most European markets were closed on Wednesday 1 May 2019).
It has been an interesting week for global markets with pockets of news sprouting up everywhere!
Following last week’s agreement to delay the UK’s withdrawal from the EU until the end of October, UK politicians took some time off for Easter this week.
Wednesday (10 April 2019) should have been an important day for financial markets as we had the release of the Fed minutes from its surprisingly dovish […]
April got underway boosted by economic data which reinforces our Goldilocks view (reasonable economic growth and lacklustre inflation). Chinese PMI data last Sunday (31 March 2019), […]
It is always interesting to look at how markets respond to economic data: last week’s PMI data from Germany and France has raised concerns about global […]
Whilst in terms of outcomes, global politics and central bank offerings have been relatively subdued this week, it is this news that has been prevalent. Following […]
Obviously Brexit has taken centre stage in the UK as it was another week of drama in Westminster, with Theresa May suffering multiple defeats. However, rather […]
The week has been remarkably subtle given it feels plenty has happened… yet not a lot has ‘actually’ happened!
As we speculated three weeks ago (please see here), Donald Trump this week said he would delay implementing US tariff increases planned for today (Friday 1 […]
