global macro

I spent a lot of time in the 2019 End of Year Special Edition looking back and reflecting across the year just been, covering some of my best (and worst) charts and...

Christmas 2018 was not a great one for many investors with an almost 20% slump in US shares from their high in September to their low on Christmas Eve, capping off a...

Picture this, the week before Christmas 2018. The S&P 500 has just had the worst quarter of performance since Q3 2011. October down -6.91%, November up 1.85% and...

MFS strategist Robert Almeida summarised it best in his latest reflections: "Investing is simple, but hard". Those who had been expecting logical, straightforward...

October presented several significant risk events which have passed without major incident, fostering some newfound optimism for global markets. The avoidance of a...

Music is wonderful in that it’s often recycled and reused to create new songs that can give old songs a new lease of life. It’s also a painful reminder of getting...

This week I was encouraged to see Shayne Elliott, CEO of ANZ, raise the following; Shayne Elliott… has called on federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to convene a summit...

September delivered further weakening in the global macroeconomic environment, justifying the large global policy accommodation (mainly via interest rate cuts and...

The concept behind the circle of influence and control is simple. What is within the ‘circle of control’ is what can be controlled by an individual, in this scenario,...

One of the most important questions facing markets over the next 12 months is whether the US services sector can keep the broader US economy out of recession despite...