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Overall, the year was remarkable for being unremarkable. At least as far as the economy and financial markets performed. The year started with the fall-out from...

The latest FOMC meeting included the release of plans for balance sheet normalisation or a transition from QE to QT . Consider this: each time QE was launched in...

Local market fell on the open before making a decent recovery on the back of recovering US market futures and better than expected building approval data. US and UK...

A reset has occurred in the bond markets with sentiment going from extreme pessimism - expecting higher yields, back to the opposite side with the bond sentiment...

The US 10 Year Bond Yields are rising with US interest rate cycle. This will push AUS 10 Year Bond Yields higher. Rising bank cost of funds will force rates higher....

Local market fell on US strike on Syria after opening positive…and then recovered into the close to slight positive. Spot gold bounced and bond yields fell as market...

I wanted to highlight this chart because the latest data basically makes it start to look like it's going against my previous thinking. The "flash global...

Local market flip-flopped to finish aimlessly flat on weak commodity prices and no real global sentiment. Telecom, Energy and Health Care moved the market higher with...

In 2016 the local index was held ransom by a run of unpredictable political and macro economic events. The ASX200 climbed an unremarkable (but tidy) 7%, which belies...