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Market Movements & Economic Review January 2023

January 12, 2023
Stay up to date with what’s happened in the Australian economy and markets over the past month. As 2022 drew to a close, investors remained focused on inflation, interest rates and recession worries. The ASX200 index declined in December after two months of gains, ending a challenging year showing an overall loss through 2022 of…

Market Movements & Economic Review December 2022

December 1, 2022
Stay up to date with what’s happened in the Australian economy and markets over the past month. The big story on the global economic front continues to be inflation, and how high interest rates will go to tame it. In Australia, Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe is watching consumer spending, where higher interest rates are…

Market Movements & Economic Review November 2022

November 2, 2022
Stay up to date with what’s happened in the Australian economy and markets over the past month. Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ first Budget was delivered against a backdrop of continuing turmoil on the global economic front. While the UK’s change in leadership and US reports of scaling back interest rate increases were welcomed by financial markets,…
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Market Movements & Economic Review October 2022

October 21, 2022
Stay up to date with what’s happened in the Australian economy and markets over the past month. In September, persistently high inflation and aggressive rate hikes by the world’s central banks put global share and bond markets under pressure. Sharemarkets globally recorded a volatile month, driven by growing fears of the risk of recession and…

Market Review & Commentary

August 23, 2022
Market Review To cap off an eventful second half of the 2022 financial year, we saw dire global economic and market headwinds not seen since the GFC over a decade ago. With the US, the largest economy in the world teetering on falling into a ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ landing recession, we also saw its share…
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Market movements & economic review August 2022

August 2, 2022
Stay up to date with what’s happened in the Australian economy and markets over the past month. Rising inflation and interest rates remained the focus of attention in July. Inflation jumped to 6.1% in the year to June and the Reserve Bank lifted the cash rate in July, with similar increases tipped to come. Stocks…

Market movements & economic review July 2022

July 1, 2022
Stay up to date with what’s happened in the Australian economy and markets over the past month. June was a big month in an eventful year for the local and global economy, with inflation and interest rates continuing to dominate. With inflation sitting at 5.1% in Australia, cost of living pressure is mounting. The Reserve…
Market movements and economic review June 2022

Market movements & economic review – June 2022

June 1, 2022
Stay up to date with what’s happened in Australian markets over the past month. Cost of living pressures, inflation and interest rates were major concerns in the lead-up to the May federal election. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) lifted the cash rate for the first time in over 11 years from 0.1% to 0.35%,…

Market Movements & Review Video – May 2022

May 3, 2022
Stay up to date with what’s happened in Australian markets over the past month. The economic event that overshadowed all others in April was the increase in inflation. The release of the March quarter Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed inflation up 2.1% in the quarter and 5.1% on an annual basis. This was the biggest…

Market movements & review video – April 2022

April 1, 2022
Stay up to date with what’s happened in Australian markets over the past month. The war in Ukraine added a major new source of uncertainty to the local and global economic outlook in March. Inflationary pressure continued as global economies recover from the pandemic and as crude oil prices surged due to economic sanctions against…

Market movements & review video – March 2022

March 1, 2022
Stay up to date with what’s happened in Australian markets over the past month. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February increased volatility on global financial markets and fuelled uncertainty about the pace of global economic recovery. Please get in touch if you’d like assistance with your personal financial situation.
Market movements Feb 22

Market movements & review video – February 2022

February 2, 2022
Stay up to date with what’s happened in Australian markets over the past month. January is normally a quiet month on the economic scene, but not this year. Inflation and speculation about rising interest rates dominated the month, sending global shares tumbling. Please get in touch if you’d like assistance with your personal financial situation….

Market movements & review video – January 2022

January 18, 2022
Stay up to date with what’s happened in Australian markets over the past month. The global economy and financial markets ended the year as they began, dominated by the pandemic, as the world grappled with a new wave of COVID-19. Global sharemarkets made some big gains in 2021 on the back of economic recovery and…
December Market Movements

Market movements & review video – December 2021

December 2, 2021
Stay up to date with what's happened in Australian markets over the past month. Our September…

Market movements & review video – November 2021

November 3, 2021
Stay up to date with what's happened in Australian markets over the past month. Our September…

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