Cheng Chye Hsern

The stock market in April displayed high levels of volatility due to multiple factors such as another bank failure, inflation woes, and a [...]

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 [...]

Like January, February continues to show a positive correlation between equities and bonds albeit in an unfavourable direction. As shown in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Stocks and bonds soared in November after lower-than-expected US inflation data in October and the Fed signalling a slowdown in rate hike. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Markets spent the last 2 months second-guessing the Fed with hopes of rate cuts in 2023 as recessionary fears loomed. Unfortunately, the old [...]