Market Overview

Stocks finished flat, with the S&P 500 falling just six bps. Most of the weaknesses yesterday came in the equal-weighted S&P 500, with the RSP ETF falling by almost 85 bps.Meanwhile, we saw...

Asian share markets are doing much better despite the wobbly session on Wall Street overnight with Chinese stocks rebounding following yesterday’s Moody’s cut, while locally the latest GDP...

This year saw the cash rate hit a 12-year high, the median house price reaching a record high, and rental vacancies hit an all-time low. Key points Domain predicts the Australian rental market will...

According to the ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer survey, there were 1,573,000 Australians who were at risk of running into problems with their home loan repayments in September '23, a new record high. After...

DXY is back:AUD puke:The peg:Oil is in trouble:Dirt gave up:Miners too:EM dead:Junk pause:Bonds are hot, hot, hot:Stocks are not, not, not:More weak US data delivered the Treasury heat. Goldman: Job...

It was all about bond markets overnight with UK gilts and US Treasury yields falling sharply as stock markets continued their wobbles going into the end of year session. The USD rebounded against the...

Recent disinflation trends have made rate cuts more likely next year And, tech companies may be beneficiaries of the new bull market So, we will take a look at three tech stocks that are likely to...

Australian neobank Up has broken fresh ground in the nation’s financial space with the launch of its automatic money management system: Hi—Fi. Key points Up Bank has debuted Australia's...

Don't look now but DXY is back in the saddle: AUD put in an impressive shooting star reversal: Gold got whacked, oil looks like it wants to retest the lows: Dirt was hosed: Big miners puked: EM...

Investor sentiment continues to rise and is increasingly outperforming its historical average (48.8% vs. 37.5%). November was not only very good for the stock markets but also for the 60/40...

Who are the biggest whales in the bond market?If you go around and ask this question, most people would tell you that’s either the Fed or foreign Central Banks like the Bank of Japan or the...

A home loan cashback offer generally involves a lender offering an incentive for you to take out a new loan with them or refinance an existing one. The incentive will usually take the form of cash, or...

Global markets Global equities were up for the fifth week in a row as the remarkable bond rally continued. US 10-year bond yields dropped a lazy 0.27% to 4.2%, with markets getting very excited about...

I previously discussed a slate of recessionary indicators with high correlations to recessionary onsets. However, as we head into 2024, many Wall Street economists predict a “soft landing”...