Weekly Market Brief

A summary of this week’s major economic events and the outlook for next week’s events that will be most impactful on the financial markets.

Weekly Market Brief

A summary of this week’s major economic events and the outlook for next week’s events that will be most impactful on the financial markets.

Weekly Market Brief

A summary of this week’s major economic events and the outlook for next week’s events that will be most impactful on the financial markets.

Bank fears fade

This week saw a calm slowly return to stock markets as severe banking contagion fears slowly faded. The Federal Reserve took charge of proceedings on Wednesday and reassured US investors…

Week of worry

This week was a roller-coaster. Monday was a fear fuelled drop for global stocks as worries about contagion from the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) crisis circulated. Tuesday saw a turnaround…

US rates focus

This week was all about a further jump in expectations of higher US interest rates. However, the drop in the US ISM Manufacturing print was a firm reminder that the…

Fed focus

The Fed’s path of policy rates remains a key focus for risk markets this week. The FOMC minutes did not contain any surprises and all eyes will remain on incoming…

Disinflation continues

This week US CPI was in major focus as investors tried to speculate on what it would mean around the pace and extent of US rate hikes. The print doesn’t…

Inflation fades

This week started with a continuation of USD weakness on the expectations that headline and core US inflation would be falling lower. Thursday’s US CPI print was as expected, but…

Mixed picture

This week started with USD strength, which is common around the start of the year from a seasonal perspective but focus quickly shifted to incoming US Data. The US ISM…

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