Following on from last Saturday’s geopolitics, it's no surprise that markets have gone through a see-saw. With safe haven assets shooting up.
US inflation figures released this week, with the headline rate running at 5% year-on-year. despite the US economy still not being back to full potential.
The G7 Finance Ministers reach deal to make multinational companies pay more tax, with a global minimum rate of 15% corporation tax agreed.
The US Federal Reserve is exploring the potential development of a regulated, monitored & eco-friendly digital version of the US Dollar for all Americans.
It has been a torrid week in the world of Cryptocurrencies. Over the past seven days, we have seen prices fall dramatically. So, what was the catalyst?
While we await a Financial Services deal between the EU & UK, it’s clear the EU wants to reduce UK dependancy with NYC winning the shake-up war.
The release of the US payroll numbers heavily disappointed, with just 266,000 new jobs created. The market expecting was closer to one million new jobs.
Despite everything default rates are around 3.5%, whilst Global debt has soared with Central Banks buying it back for Quantitative Easing & market support.
Providing a boost to the Canadian Dollar, the Central Bank of Canada announced it is scaling back on its pandemic relief given the progress of the economy.
This week saw releases around GDP growth, retail sales & inflation, which are all rising. Biden's $1.9trn stimulus package is having an immediate effect.
The Biden administration is to raise the US corporate tax rate to 28% and has also proposed to set a global minimum corporation tax rate of 21%.
Latest manufacturing figures show that UK firms are adapting well & with the current lockdown not proving as obstructive as initially thought.
This week a number of developing countries raised interest rates & others could follow suit. Meanwhile, Norway stated it will bring forward it's rate hike.
The successful passage of the US stimulus bill dominated news this week and it was quite the result for the Biden presidency with the full amount passed.
Global manufacturing activity is strong, but services could start to improve once the impact of economic stimulus & vaccinations starts to filter through.
10-year government bond yields continued to soar this week. The continuing trend that began at the start of the year, this week became more pronounced.
As companies adapt, they become smarter at dealing with the virus and lockdowns, meaning they have been able to keep the production cycle running.
The never ending story that is Bitcoin continued this week with Tesla's announcement that it had bought $1.5bn of Bitcoin. Sending the price soaring again.
Some economies seem to be holding up well, with strong data from the US indicating very healthy expansion. Whilst Chinese data has slipped back a little.
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