Weekly Summaries
Weekly Summary – More downgrades forecasts
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Amid holiday closures in Asia and subdued price action in the financial markets, it was a busy week on the economic calendar and attention was mainly on Australia, the US and the UK. Reserve Bank of Australia ...
Read MoreWeek Ahead – Central Banks and Earnings
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Market Overview It was an interesting week on the geopolitical and economic front. Investors were busy with the earnings season, trade talks, Brexit and the Fed. It ended on a big beat on the Nonfarm payrol...
Read MoreWeekly Summary – An eventful end of the Month
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets It was an interesting week on the geopolitical and economic front. Investors were busy with the earnings season, trade talks, Brexit and the Fed. Earnings Season We started the week with profit warnings from ...
Read MoreWeekly Summary – IMF Warnings and Conflicting Trade News
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Amid a busy calendar, the IMF growth warnings have been the primary driver of risk sentiment during the course of the week. Towards the second half of the week, investors seem to be driven and supported by the ...
Read MoreWeek Ahead -Brexit Plan B and Central Banks
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Market Overview It was a hectic week of messy politics with Brexit, the US government shutdown and political challenges in Europe. However, towards the end of last week, trade news stole the show and bolstered t...
Read MoreWeekly Summary -Trade News Stole the Show
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets After a hectic week of messy politics, trade news stole the show and helped the markets to extend gains. Overall, there was a positive sentiment in the markets despite the bearish factors that are hovering over...
Read MoreWeek Ahead – Brexit – A Big Week for the UK
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Market Overview Trade Talks and FOMC Minutes The first two weeks of the year was filled with information that is enough to steer investors on the two most severe risks that have created fears in the financial...
Read MoreWeekly Summary – A “Patient” and “Flexible” Fed
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets The dynamics in the markets progressed in two different phases. The first half of the week was mostly driven by trade talks whereas the Fed steered up the second half of the week. Trade talks The positive com...
Read MoreWeek Ahead – NFP Sets a Positive Tone!
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Market Overview It was all about the NFP! It was an impressive turnaround to what was a very volatile first few days of the new year. The Non-farm payrolls surpassed expectations and surged to 312k instead ...
Read MoreWeekly Summary – Apple the Bellwether
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets The start of a new trading year was rough. Investors were probably hoping that the first week of the new year would be less dramatic than 2018, but they must have been so disappointed. Amid such thin markets, a...
Read MoreWeek Ahead – The US Employment Stands Out
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Market Overview The relief rally in the equity markets was short-lived, and investors are currently reflecting on the tumultuous year. Amid a thinned-economic calendar and holiday period, markets participants st...
Read MoreWeekly Summary – The Santa Relief Rally
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets On the brink of bear markets levels, the relief rally in the equity markets was widely embraced. Overall, the price action in the financial markets was mostly driven by the headlines emerging from the White Hou...
Read MoreWeekly Summary – The Fed and a possible US shutdown
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets It was a challenging pre-Christmas week driven by the bears. The economic calendar was packed with monetary decisions and important inflationary indicators. However, price action in the financial markets was mo...
Read MoreWeek Ahead – A Packed Economic Calendar
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Market Overview Investors had a lot to digest from last week. Trade fears receded, but disappointing Chinese data weighed on risk sentiment. Brexit drama persisted with the withdrawal of the Brexit vote and a le...
Read MoreWeekly Summary – Trade War Fears Recede
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Investors found some support on trade optimism as we progressed into the week. Washington and the financial markets welcomed China’s soybean sales move and cheered up the first concrete and meaningful step fr...
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