Global updates: US indices hit new highs
US stock markets continued to forge ahead during February: the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index reached a new closing high.
Adviser-Hub 11th Mar 2024
Global updates: Getting close?
May was dominated by concerns over the US debt ceiling.
Adviser-Hub 7th Jun 2023
Asian Japan markets review: Trade tensions hit growth in Asia
Economic growth picked up in Japan during the first quarter of 2019, despite the continuing trade tensions between the US and China.
Adviser-Hub 10th Jul 2019
Asian Japan markets review: Clouds over Japan’s economy
Confidence amongst Japanese businesses deteriorated over the first three months of 2019, according to the Bank of Japan’s (BoJ’s) quarterly Tankan survey of business sentiment.
Adviser-Hub 17th Apr 2019
Asian Japan markets review: Trade deal hopes boost sentiment
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 Index reached its highest level since mid-December during February, boosted by US President Donald Trump’s decision to delay tariff increases on imports from China.
Adviser-Hub 6th Mar 2019
Asian Japan markets review: Japan faces economic headwinds in 2019
Japan’s economy contracted at an annualised rate of 2.5% during the third quarter of 2018, compared with an earlier calculation of -1.2%. Activity was curtailed during the year by a series of natural...
Adviser-Hub 18th Dec 2018
Asian Japan markets review: Natural disasters dampen Japan’s growth
Japan’s economy shrank during the three months to September, contracting at an annualised rate of 1.2%. Spending and export activity were hampered over the summer by a series of natural disasters.
Adviser-Hub 7th Dec 2018
Global update: Deal or no deal … or no Brexit at all?
Months of Brexit speculation and uncertainty came to a head in November as the UK and the EU finally succeeded in reaching a Brexit deal.
Inflation picks up in Japan
September 2018 as expected, the Bank of Japan kept its monetary policy unchanged in September, maintaining its short-term interest rate target at minus 0.1% and an annual target of around 80 trilli...
Adviser-Hub 5th Oct 2018
Asian Japan market review: Asian markets weakened in February
February 2018 Like many other major equity markets around the world, stock indices in Asia fell sharply during February amid speculation that US monetary policy might begin to tighten more quickly...
Adviser-Hub 14th Mar 2018
Asia Japan market review: The Nikkei 225 Index hits its highest level since 1991
Following the US’s rejection of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the remaining 11 participants have agreed to sign a trade deal in Chile in March.
Adviser-Hub 14th Feb 2018
Categories
Archives
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
Authors
Tags
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tue, 15th, Oct Newmarket
Tue, 15th, Oct Truro
Tue, 15th, Oct Taunton
Tue, 15th, Oct Online Event
Wed, 16th, Oct Norwich
Wed, 16th, Oct Cardiff
Wed, 16th, Oct Bristol
Wed, 16th, Oct London
Thu, 17th, Oct Cheltenham
Thu, 17th, Oct New Forest
Sign up to our Hub News E-Newsletter