Market Review

Executive Summary  In September 2024, the stock market marked its first positive month in five years, largely due to a 50-basis point rate cut from the Federal Reserve (Fed) and stimulus [...]

Executive Summary  August 2024 brought sharp market swings, driven by weak U.S. economic data and an unexpected rate hike from the Bank of Japan, which triggered a carry trade unwind and a global [...]

Executive Summary  In July, global equity markets saw strong performance driven by weaker-than-expected inflation and employment data, increasing the likelihood of a Federal Reserve rate cut. [...]

Executive Summary  In June, the global equity markets experienced a significant rally, largely driven by large-cap growth stocks in the technology sector. The MSCI All Country World IMI Index [...]

Executive Summary  In May 2024, global stock and bond markets rebounded significantly, driven by strong corporate earnings, slowing inflation, and increased economic activity in the US and EU. [...]

Executive Summary  In April, the stock market rally paused as both equities and bonds saw significant declines amidst reports of persistent inflation in the US, which reduced the likelihood of [...]

Executive Summary  Equities continued their upward trend in March. However, this time, value stocks shone. Strong performances from the energy, material, industrial, and financial sectors boosted [...]

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Bond yields in January experienced only a marginal increase, even though the Federal Reserve (Fed) ruled out the possibility of a March rate cut. In the initial part of the month, yields moved [...]

The market extended its rally into December, building on the optimism seen in November, driven by expectations of more future rate cuts forecasted by the Federal Reserve. This anticipation [...]

Equities Surged by Nearly 10% In November Following the market declines in October, there was a notable rally in equity and bond markets in November, surpassing the losses incurred the previous [...]

Global Equity and Bonds See the Worst October in Years The equity and bond markets experienced their worst October performance in years following September’s decline, as Treasury yields continued [...]

In September, both the equity and fixed income markets faced a downturn in performance, largely attributed by the escalating U.S. yields. This was caused by an unexpected announcement from the [...]

In the year 2023, volatility has been far from absent. Following the market’s rally in July, the equity market experienced a downturn, primarily attributed by a substantial drop in major [...]

  In July, equities experienced a significant upswing, building on the momentum from the previous month’s success. Notably, Dimensional equity funds performed exceptionally well, [...]

June proved to be a favourable month for the stock market as equities demonstrated resilience and rallied, defying the Fed’s signal to raise interest rates by another 50 basis points during [...]

Volatility in the market continues to be high in May as the debt ceiling impasse between US political parties generated headlines over the month while sticky inflation data from US and Europe [...]

The stock market in April displayed high levels of volatility due to multiple factors such as another bank failure, inflation woes, and a decelerating US economy. Despite these issues, the stock [...]

Given the headlines in early and mid-March, one might be forgiven for thinking that it would be a terrible month for markets as banks seemed to be collapsing and some Credit Suisse bondholders [...]

Like January, February continues to show a positive correlation between equities and bonds albeit in an unfavourable direction. As shown in Exhibit 1, the S&P 500, tracking US large [...]

The January effect is a phenomenon where stocks tend to rise at the beginning of the year. The January effect was in full play this year as the stock market rallied following the news of [...]

2022 ended on a far more sombre note, and the 4th quarter rally in stocks fizzled out in December. Equity and bond indexes fell in December after central banks continued to remain committed to [...]

Last week, 4 major central banks (US, UK, Europe and Swiss) raised their main interest rates by 0.5% (Exhibit 1). While all the major banks have slowed down the pace of their rate hikes, their [...]

Stocks and bonds soared in November after lower-than-expected US inflation data in October and the Fed signalling a slowdown in rate hike. Released on November 10th, the US CPI, which measures [...]

October and the start of November have been great months to be invested, as markets have made up ground on the losses for the year. Undoubtedly, the recovery is not complete, and the outlook [...]

After 2 months of consecutive losses, the stock market rebounded amidst a possibility of a slowdown of rate hike by the Fed as well as positive sentiments toward US earnings results. 71% of [...]

We thought that it would be a good time to take the chance to share with you some of the common questions we have been receiving in the past months and use this opportunity to share our responses [...]

September was a brutal month for stocks as markets fell to the lowest since March 2020. After 4 rate hikes this year, the Federal Reserve raised an additional 0.75% in September after the [...]

Stock markets experienced their worst 1-day drop since the Covid pandemic in June 2020 on the news that inflation in the US rose in August. Against most expectations looking for a fall in oil [...]

Markets spent the last 2 months second-guessing the Fed with hopes of rate cuts in 2023 as recessionary fears loomed. Unfortunately, the old adage of don’t fight the Fed came back to give [...]