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Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on December 3, 2017December 3, 2017
  • Financial Market Summaries

  US Equities: The Dow Jones Industrial Index broke above 24,000 for the first time as global equities enjoyed a 13th straight month of gains. […]

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Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on November 5, 2017August 15, 2018
  • Financial Market Summaries

The world’s economies and stock markets are strong right now. Let’s start with the US. Lots of reasons for American stock markets to keep hitting […]

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Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on October 1, 2017October 9, 2017
  • Financial Market Summaries

An end to the crisis-era Quantitative Easing and gradual interest rate rises loom across the globe US The US Federal Reserve will throw its 2008 […]

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Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on September 10, 2017September 18, 2017
  • Financial Market Summaries

US The two big questions facing traders are the path of US interest rates and the pace of ‘Fed’ balance sheet reduction. US Central Bank […]

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Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on August 1, 2017August 1, 2017
  • Financial Market Summaries

Equities US Equities have hit record highs, having climbed nearly 11% so far this year as Wall Street welcomes a cautious Federal Reserve and the […]

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Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on July 2, 2017December 3, 2017
  • Financial Market Summaries

Central Banks: Currently we are seeing a global sell-off in the bond market  (which has spread to equities) amid fears that the post financial crisis […]

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Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on June 10, 2017June 10, 2017
  • Financial Market Summaries

US Since March 14 2017 the yield on the global benchmark US 10-year Treasury bond has defied expectations and fallen from 2.60% to 2.14% which […]

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Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on May 22, 2017
  • Financial Market Summaries

Foreign Exchange The dollar suffered its worst week in more than a year, wiping out all its gains since Donald Trump was elected US president, […]

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Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on April 20, 2017April 20, 2017
  • Financial Market Summaries

Europe rather than the US is holding centre stage right now. UK This week’s surprise election call by British Prime Minister Theresa May helped briefly […]

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Graduate Market Update

By Paul McCormickPosted on March 30, 2017May 21, 2017
  • Financial Market Summaries

US Interest Rates Ten days ago the US FOMC (Federal Open Markets Committee) raised the key ’Fed Funds’ rate by 0.25% to take the new […]

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