Please find below our Investment Market Update as at 18th August 2023.
What a shocker of a week for the markets! Equities and the much-coveted bonds have both regressed quite steeply due to a mixture of inflation news, economic weakness and fears over deflation in China. In both the West and East, we have worries about global growth but for different reasons – in the West because of rising interest rates, whereas in China they have falling interest rates in an effort to stimulate the economy.
I had written the bare bones of this Commentary earlier in the week, but I have swerved much of that content in a quest to explain what is happening now.
In this week’s Commentary:
- Contagion spreads
- Is a market bounce around the corner?
- Is Chinese deflation a real concern?
- Inflation and interest rates in the Western World
- Strong earnings don’t stimulate the market
- Bonds sell off
- Weakness in the job market
- Good news for mortgages
- Summary
We appreciate that sudden lurches are disconcerting but I’m afraid markets do this from time to time, particularly during periods of uncertainty. As a couple of investment houses have reminded us, this is not untypical of a late economic cycle.
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