Weekly Summaries
Weekly Summary – Positive Political Developments
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Weekly Summary It was a busy week charged with geopolitical developments and key economic data releases. As the week comes to an end, we note that there is a positive sentiment prevailing in the financial market...
Read MoreWeek Ahead – New tariffs Kick-In
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Week Ahead After a dreadful month of August where a wave of volatility swamped the markets, September kicks-in with the world’s two largest economies imposing new tariffs on each other. The latest escalation ...
Read MoreWeek Ahead -The Dark Clouds of Trade Tariffs
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Week Ahead It is the last week of August, and it is unlikely that investors will get a breather. The tariff hike cast a shadow over the financial markets. Monday kicked off with a risk-off sentiment setting a b...
Read MoreWeekly Summary – “Mid-Cycle Adjustment”
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Weekly Summary The primary focus was the Jackson Hole Symposium this week. August is shaping up to be the worst month of 2019 for the markets as several bearish factors have gripped risk sentiment. We saw errati...
Read MoreWeek Ahead – Jackson Hole Symposium and Central Banks Minutes
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Market Overview It was another tumultuous week where we saw a rout in the equity markets while the bond market rallied. The immediate flight for safety caused the US and UK’s yield curve to invert and drove th...
Read MoreWeekly Summary – Wave of Volatility
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Weekly Summary It was another dreadful week with much volatility in the markets. The increased hostility between China and the US, heightened geopolitical tensions and renewed recession fears created an awful co...
Read MoreWeek Ahead – Attention on Global Economic Data
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Week Ahead After a volatile week triggered by the controversial Yuan fixing, investors’ attention will probably return to global data and the aggressive monetary easing policies seen last week in th...
Read MoreWeekly Summary – It was all about the Yuan
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Weekly Summary Trade disputes, currency wars, Brexit, and geopolitical tensions are the ongoing headlines that dominate the news cycle every day. After President Trump surprised the markets with more tariffs o...
Read MoreWeek Ahead – Central Banks and Trade Woes
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Week Ahead It will be another jam-packed week with central banks meetings, top-tier data and trade-related headlines to kick start a new month. The markets ended mixed last week as trade escalation returns whil...
Read MoreWeekly Summary – Trade Truce Ends
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Weekly Summary Many dubbed this week as the “busiest week” of the year with important central bank meetings and trade talks in Shanghai. The week took an unexpected twist with tweets from President Trump....
Read MoreWeek Ahead -Trade Talks, Central banks and NFP
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Week Ahead It will be a pivotal week with the key central banks’ meetings and the Non-farm payrolls while investors will also monitor the US-China faceoff in Shanghai amid deal pessimism. Trade Talks in Shan...
Read MoreWeekly Summary – Geopolitics and Corporate Earnings
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Weekly Summary Geopolitics US-China Trade optimism revived risk sentiment on Tuesday after a slow start to a busy week. It was reported that top US trade officials and Chinese negotiators would meet face...
Read MoreWeek Ahead – US Earnings and GDP
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Week Ahead We expect the attention at the start of the week to be on the outcome of the election in Japan. The focus will also be on central banks – both in the developed and emerging markets while ...
Read MoreWeekly Summary – Earnings Season
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Weekly Summary Earnings Season Investors were bracing for the second-quarter earnings season this week. The following major companies released their quarterly figures this week. Goldman Sachs Group Inc: ...
Read MoreWeekly Summary – The Global Run Towards Easing Policies
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Weekly Summary Fed Chair’s Testimony and FOMC Minutes The highlight of the week was the semi-annual monetary policy testimony by Fed Chair- Jerome Powell. The nonfarm payroll data scaled back rate cut exp...
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