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Money Matters 28th April 2020
GAUGING THE STATE OF THE WORLD ECONOMY IN A PANDEMIC As the coronavirus outbreak caused outages in factories and reduced household and business spending globally,
Money Matters 21st April 2020
EARNINGS SEASON AND PMIs TO DRIVE GLOBAL MARKETS Policymakers globally kept working on schemes to bolster their respective economies debilitated by the nCOVID-19 pandemic. In the
Money Matters 15th April 2020
FRESH DATA POINTS TO HELP GAUGE THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL LOCKDOWN The concluded OPEC+ oil supply agreement is similar in substance to that outlined last
Money Matters 7th April 2020
DATA REVEALS THE DEGREE OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC WEAKNESS IN MARCH During the week, the JP Morgan Global Composite PMI was released, showing a fall to
Money Matters 31st March 2020
A DECADE-LONG ECONOMIC CYCLE COMES TO AN ABRUPT END It is no doubt that the global economy is going through a period of recession, due
Money Matters 24th March 2020
THE FED DEPLOYS TARGETED TOOLS, WHILST CAPITOL HILL STALLS Last week saw the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) comprehensive set of measures which were taken to reduce
Money Matters 17th March 2020
THE FED HAS GONE ALL IN ON SUNDAY Despite the positive start of the year, the economic disruption caused by the Covid-19 has most likely
Money Matters 10th March 2020
EMERGENCY, PAGING DR. BEAT In her 1984 classic, Gloria Estefan is paging Dr Beat, as she desperately needs ‘to ease the pain’ and is about to
Money Matters 3rd March 2020
WILL THE POWELL PUTT STABILISE MARKETS? The rally in US Treasury yields (the 10-year slid to 1.10% by the end of Friday) and the double-digit
Money Matters 25th February 2020
CHINA SNEEZES AND THE WORLD CATCHES A COLD The coronavirus continues to dominate headlines. Although 21 Chinese provinces reported zero new coronavirus cases on the 22nd February,
Money Matters 18th February 2020
PMIs MIGHT PROVIDE GUIDANCE ON THE STATE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY New cases of the coronavirus rose sharply from Wednesday to Thursday after Chinese authorities
Money Matters 11th February 2020
POLICYMAKERS WILL REMAIN VIGILANT If it was not for the coronavirus, global economic growth would have a promising outlook for 2020. This idea was underpinned
Money Matters 4th February 2020
CORONAVIRUS-INDUCED UNCERTAINTIES DRIVE MARKETS The coronavirus (2019-nCoV) related fears have been spreading globally and dominating headlines. At the time of writing, the number of infected
Money Matters 21st January 2020
LET PHASE TWO COMMENCE! China’s Vice Premier, Liu He, headed to Washington for the signing of the Phase One Trade Deal. This represents the first
Money Matters 14th January 2020
LOOKING BEYOND THE PHASE ONE TRADE DEAL The US and Chinese administrations are set to sign the Phase One trade deal on the 15th January putting
Money Matters 17th December 2019
THANK YOU, NEXT… The US and China have reached an agreement on a Phase One deal in which the US refrains from raising tariffs in December
Money Matters 10th December 2019
LET IT GROW, LET IT GROW, LET IT GROW! Last week was an emotional rollercoaster for global investor sentiment due to US President Trump’s blunt
Money Matters 3rd December 2019
A STRONG US ECONOMY STEAMS AHEAD The latest release of GDP statistics in the US confirmed that the world’s largest economy was able to sustain a
