Market Update

Andrew’s Views ‘But’  Economies throughout the world are doing well at the moment. News last week regarding US jobs data was significantly better than expected meaning that the chance of a recession is becoming less and less likely. China’s fiscal stimulus is having the desired effect with Chinese equities rising 20% at one point. Economists [...]

Andrew’s Views (Market Update) It’s all about Nvidia Last week was supposed to be all about Nvidia’s earnings results, which took place just after the U.S. market closed on Wednesday. Many analysts described the release as one of the most important corporate results in history, even perceived by some as more influential than last week’s [...]

Andrew’s Views Things had been going very well during July, and I had written a very different market update, and then on the very last day of the month we saw some huge falls across the world. Whilst most of the volatility has calmed and the losses mostly clawed back, Japan saw the largest falls. [...]

Andrew’s Views Markets continued with modest gains in June, with most of the news being about politics rather than economic or corporate news. This is an election heavy year with both the UK and France’s elections having taken place and the US election coming in November. There were some concerns that the far-right in France [...]

Andrew’s Views Markets fell worldwide at the end of April, with the exception of the UK. The FTSE 100 has recently not only closed above 8,000 for the first time, but then within a month closed over 8,400. Most worldwide market have since not only recovered their April losses, but went on to further rises [...]

Andrew’s Views Markets mostly held on to their gains in April, but very few reached new hights. Resilient data from both the US and the UK have made for some surprising results. The UK has left it’s recession earlier than expected and the US’s expected recession due from the fast and large interest rate raises [...]

Markets around the world hit their respective highs over the last month. Since then there has been some modest volatility in most markets, however, most of the markets have returned to their previous highs. Japan is an interesting case, having eventually passed it’s 1980’s high point for the first time in 40 years. Japan’s market [...]