ABE Weekly 02/09/2020
ABE Weekly 02/09/2020 Market Update The big global headline this past week was the annual US Fed meeting in Jackson Hole where the future of US monetary policy was outlined. That said, they didn’t really say anything the markets didn’t already know namely low rates to remain for the foreseeable future and an allowance of higher inflation – which further strengthened the view that Central Bankers around […]
ABX Weekly 26/08/2020
ABX Weekly 26/08/2020 Market Update It has been a relatively uneventful week in the global markets. On the home front, the situation in Victoria is improving however, it is still a long way from some form of normality and the state continues to be in lock down. It is a tough situation and a very fine line balancing health vs the economy? At this stage, boarder closures seem to be the mainstay approach of the state’s premiers with the hope to avoid a second […]
ABE Weekly 19/8/2020
ABE Weekly 19/08/2020 Market Update Bank term deposits are for many investors close to retirement traditionally their primary source of income and recent statistic show that Australian household deposits are now over $1 trillion¹. They are of course particularly popular in these uncertain times because they offer savers less risk and volatility than many other investments. However, at rates of 1% or less they are hardly appealing and are forcing investors to […]
ABE Weekly 12/08/2020
ABE Weekly 12/08/2020 Market Update It was a challenging week following the massive explosion in Beirut – our thoughts go out to all those affected. The pandemic situation globally is still far from over but closer to home what’s happening in Melbourne has the rest of the country on high alert. A second nationwide lockdown would really hurt the domestic economy, but we have […]
ABX Weekly 05/08/2020
ABX Weekly 05/08/2020 Market Update So probably no surprise that the RBA kept rates unchanged at 0.25% – there is still a school of thought that suggests rates may turn negative – can you imagine being paid to borrow money and having to pay the bank to save. You can feel the frustration in the air as people really start […]
ABE Weekly 29/07/2020
ABE Weekly 29/07/2020 Market Update It has been another interesting week in financial markets where despite continuing global increases in COVID cases, risk assets continue to push higher with the US$ gold price increasing strongly towards US$2,000/oz on the back of more upcoming global money printing and a weakening US$. One example of this of course was the recent successful European agreement on a massive Euro1.8 trillion stimulus package. […]
ABX Weekly 22/07/2020
ABX Weekly 22/07/2020 Market Update It’s starting to feel a little like groundhog-day unfortunately. Like Denis Denuto said in “The Castle”, it’s all about the Fed, it’s about COVID, well it’s just about the Fed, oh and maybe China. It seems the Fed has the whole world wrapped around its finger. If the Fed sneezes, we all catch a cold, perhaps not the best analogy […]
ABE Weekly 15/07/2020
ABE Weekly 15/07/2020 Market Update The big news once again belonged to the second or third wave of renewed COVID-19 outbreak with Melbourne’s renewed lockdown costing an estimate $1bn per day. Westpac’s Bill Evans estimated a further 0.2 percentage point hit for overall growth this year. ‘‘We have slightly lowered our annual forecast for 2020 from a contraction […]
ABX Weekly 08/07/2020
ABX Weekly 08/07/2020 Market Update The RBA left interest rates as expected unchanged at 0.25% with consumer and business confidence one of the major concerns. This uncertainty clearly means that interest rates will continue to stay low for a prolong time and Dr. Lowe further said that “The substantial, co-ordinated and unprecedented easing of fiscal and monetary policy in Australia is helping the […]
ABX Weekly 01/07/2020
ABX Weekly 01/07/2020 The major headline this week belongs once again to the renewed anxiety of the resurging number of the virus outbreak in Melbourne with news of Coles and Woolworths having reinstated purchase limits on toilet paper and paper towels across Australia as panic buying spreads to other states. On top of this, we had Qantas announcing its much anticipated major […]