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Financial Literacy
MARKET UPDATE – MARCH 2022 – Ukraine conflict causes equities to decline while oil price surges
The anticipation of Russia invading Ukraine knocked stock markets towards the end of February. Share indices fell between 4% and 8% in the days leading up to the invasion on February 24, but then recovered as the initial sanctions announced were seen as being less...
MARKET UPDATE – FEBRUARY 2022 – EXPECTATION OF MULTIPLE RATE RISES KNOCKS FROTH OFF MARKETS…. BUT OVERALL OUTLOOK REMAINS FAVOURABLE
It’s been a rough start to the year. Geopolitical tensions between the US and Russia have become increasingly acute but it is nervous anticipation of the US Federal Reserve withdrawing monetary policy support that has been the main cause of a spike in financial market...
MARKET UPDATE – NOVEMBER 2021 – Third quarter ends with equity and bond sell-off
During September, the New Horizon strategies gave up gains made earlier in the quarter as turbulent equity and bond markets suffered declines due to a broad range of factors. These included concerns about global growth waning due to the highly infectious Delta Covid...
MARKET UPDATE – AUGUST 2021 – FINANCIAL MARKETS BUFFETED BY CROSS-CURRENTS
The latest World Economic Outlook released by the IMF in late July highlighted the still growing divergence between advanced and emerging market economies. At a global scale, it maintained its forecast 6% growth rate for the world, while upping the rate of growth...
MARKET UPDATE – July 2021 – Inflation Sentiment Changes Continue to Dominate Financial Markets
The path to full economic recovery continues apace. Around three billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have now been administered in what has become a race against ever-emerging variants of the virus. The success of the vaccination campaign in the United States has...
MARKET UPDATE – Inflation Sentiment Changes Continue to Dominate Financial Markets
Stock markets, commodity prices and cryptocurrencies all experienced a volatile May, first climbing strongly and then selling off sharply as inflation fears surged and then subsided. Headline US consumer price inflation came in at 4.2%, well above the US Federal...
MARKET UPDATE – Earnings continue to outpace expectations
Investor sentiment in April was supported by the continued economic recovery. While estimates of 2021 GDP growth continue to rise, the US Central Bank maintains that it is in no hurry to withdraw monetary stimulus. Consequently, many major equity indices have climbed...
MARKET UPDATE – Growth Optimism & Stock Market Momentum Continue to Prevail
Now that spring has sprung, there is a palpable sense of optimism that global growth will surprise on the upside this year, buoyed by the promising pace of vaccine rollouts and economies opening up. The seasonality is no coincidence since the dark days of winter...
MARKET UPDATE – Mounting inflation fears play havoc with financial markets
Financial markets in February were predominantly driven by investor worries about inflation prospects as they ignored the continued assurances from central banks that they do not expect persistent inflation to become a problem. Benchmark US Treasury bond yields toyed...