by lauren@ldpdevelopment.co.za | Feb 10, 2019 | Bonds Monitor, Commodity Monitor, Currency Monitor, Equity Monitor, Politics
The Week in Review February 9th 2019 Over the past two years, global equity markets have demonstrated a highly unusual sensitivity to the political wanderings of President Donald Trump of the USA. In 2017, his unusual tax break sent global equities – and their...
by lauren@ldpdevelopment.co.za | Nov 18, 2018 | bitcoins, Bonds Monitor, Commodity Monitor, Currency Monitor, Equity Monitor
THE WEEK IN REVIEW 17 Nov 2018 The year-end rally is about to start Since 1950, the S&P has rallied in December 75 % of the time, according to the Stock Traders Almanac. The benchmark index has gained an average of 1.6 percent for December, traditionally the...
by lauren@ldpdevelopment.co.za | Nov 11, 2018 | Bonds Monitor, Commodity Monitor, Currency Monitor, Equity Monitor, Weekly Monitors
US Midterm elections : Half victories It wasn’t the crushing defeat we feared for Donald Trump nor was it the triumphant victory the US democracy needed. The US mid-term elections yielded a result that contained the powers of the most abrasive US President in decades...
by lauren@ldpdevelopment.co.za | Nov 4, 2018 | bonds, commodities, currencies, Weekly Monitors, World equities
The month of October always had a frightful reputation.The market declines of 1929 and the 1987 crash both happened in October even if they ultimately had very different outcomes, one leading to the Great Depression and the second one being just a painful hitch in a...
by lauren@ldpdevelopment.co.za | Oct 27, 2018 | commodities, currencies, Weekly Monitors, World equities
Correction within a Bear Market Since September 20th 2018, more than $10 trillion of wealth were erased from equity prices, even as bonds and currency remained calm, and that comes on top of the US$ 3 trillion erased from China and Asian markets since January.The...
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