Week in review Global equities lifted for the second week in a row as Fed chair Powell all but confirmed the Fed would only raise rates by 0.5% at its policy meeting next week. Another benign US October inflation report also supported sentiment, with the core …

Week in review The third ‘Fed pivot’ trade this year – which essentially has been in place since mid-October – continued last week, with markets still basking in the growing likelihood that the US Federal Reserve will only raise rates by 0.5% at the December policy …

Week in review With the tailwind of a good recent US CPI result, global equities tried hard to continue the rally last week – but ended down in the face of the unrelenting headwind of hawkish Fed commentary. Most Fed officials who spoke last week conceded …

Week in review By far, the key market highlight over the past week was the lower-than-expected October US Consumer Price Index (CPI) report. Core inflation (excluding food and energy) rose by only 0.3% over the month compared with market expectations of 0.5%. After a number of …

Week in review Global equities tried hard to continue to rally last week while the US Fed tried hard to prevent that from happening. The Fed hiked rates by 0.75% as widely expected, and hinted at a likely scaling back to a 0.5% (or even 0.25%) …

Week in review Better than feared Q3 US earnings results and ongoing hopes of a dovish Fed ‘pivot’ helped propel global equities higher again last week – despite signs of still-high US inflation and weakening economic growth. Hope on Wall Street still springs eternal. As evident …

Global Markets Global equities saw reason for optimism last week, helped by a UK U-turn and media reports the Fed will scale back the size of rate hikes in December. Of course, the Fed is still on track to hike by another monster 0.75% next week …

Week in review The obvious highlight of the past week in global markets was the higher than expected US CPI result, which has likely cemented the case for yet another 0.75% Fed rate hike at the early November policy meeting. The US market is now toying …

Week in review Last week can be divided into two halves. In the first half, weaker than expected US economic manufacturing data saw Wall Street bond and equity traders get excited about yet another potential ‘pivot’ by the Federal Reserve. Alas, the week ended with still …

Week in review It was another down week for global equities as the unrelenting hawkishness of Fed speakers continued to weigh on sentiment. That said, bond yields have attempted to rally at various points over the past week on financial stability concerns – first with concerns …