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The World In A Week – The US Labour Market Enters The Fall

Written by Cormac Nevin While August has been a moderately negative month for markets, we saw a widespread rally last week. This was led by Japanese Equities, as well as growth-biased and small cap…

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The World In A Week – Fly Me To The Moon

Written by Shane Balkham Last week was naturally focused on the opening speeches at the Jackson Hole symposium, an annual gathering of policymakers from around the world, to discuss topical financial…

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The World In A Week – Nothing to See Here

Written by Chris Ayton It was a tough week for global equity markets with the MSCI All Country World Index -2.7% in Sterling terms. Bonds also declined with the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Index -0.3%…

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‘Light at the end of the tunnel’ as inflation falls again

The fall in inflation in July has offered some respite from the cost-of-living crisis, but experts have warned we are not out of the woods yet.

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ONS record growth in wages shows UK ‘in a state of flux’ – reaction from finance and other experts

This morning’s announcement from the ONS that wages in the UK grew at a record rate in Q2 with regular wages growing by 7.8%, the highest since records began back in 2001.

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The World In A Week – Summer Prints

Written by Millan Chauhan. Last week, we saw the release of US inflation data where the US Consumer Price Index reached 3.2% on a year-over-year basis as of July 2023 which was below expectations of…

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The World In A Week – A mix of opportunities and challenges

Written by Ilaria Massei Fitch Ratings downgraded the credit rating of US government debt from AAA to AA+, citing governance and fiscal challenges. The news encouraged some investors to take profits…

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The World In A Week – Interesting Developments in Asia

Written by Cormac Nevin. Markets were rather muted in Europe and the US last week, with the FTSE All Share Index of UK Equities up +0.3%, the MSCI Europe Ex-UK Index of Continental European Equities…

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The World In A Week – Moving in the right direction

Written by Millan Chauhan. In the UK, headline inflation for June was lower than expected at 7.9% year-on-year, the lowest level since March 2022, and ended a five-month run where inflation came in…

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UK inflation holds at 8.7% after two months of falls

Core CPI rose by 7.1% in the 12 months to May, up from 6.8% in April, and the highest rate since March 1992.

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The World In A Week – Game, Set & Match for Inflation in US?

Written by Chris Ayton. As a classic but relatively wet Wimbledon fortnight ended, with nearly 200,000 servings of strawberries having been eaten, global equity markets were in no mood to be…

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UK economy shrinks by 0.1% in May raising chances of further interest rate hikes: reaction

News released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) today has shown that UK GDP shrank by 0.1% in May 2023.

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