Global indices ended the week lower with Dow Jones and S&P 500 declined by -1.0% WoW and -0.4% WoW, respectively. In the US, news has been focusing on the potential impeachment of President Trump, which could create uncertainty on the political situation heading into 2020 presidential election.

Majority of global indexes were closed lower last Friday with Dow Jones and S&P declined by -1.0% WoW and -0.5% WoW respectively. Earlier last week, hawkish Fed rate cut gave positive sentiment to equity indexes. Yet, stocks turned lower in Friday after a report that a Chinese delegation cancelled plans…

Positive news continued to trickle in this past week, further boosting equities. First, trade tensions eased further on a slew of goodwill ‘gestures’ by both the US and China. China exempted 16 US products from tariffs while on Friday it announced it will exempt US soybeans, pork and other agricultural…

Dow Jones and S&P Index were up by +1.5% WoW and +1.8% WoW respectively, as US and China agreed to restart trade talk in October 2019.

Dow Jones Index and S&P 500 declined -1.0% and -1.4%WoW, respectively, mainly dropped on the last day of trading as China's move to add 5-10% tariffs on $75bn of US exports in two tranches on Sep 1 and Dec 15, and end the suspended tariff hike on cars and car…

SPX declining -1%WoW due to market concerns on potential upcoming US recession on the back of the US 10Y/2Y yield curve briefly inverting, weak German economic data and China’s disappointing credit and activity data where Industrial Production and retail sales growth slowed down in July.

Global equities continued to trade lower last week S&P500 -0.5%WoW, Dow Jones -0.8% WoW, Nikkei -1.5% WoW and Shanghai -3.2% WoW still due to concern about trade war. Indexes experienced sharp losses early last week but managed to claw back most of the losses on the last day.

While US equities posted new highs (SPX +1.7% WoW) on strong corporate earnings, Asian equities struggled, posting declines of -0.8WoW, as investors somewhat pared back their expectations on the extent of easing by CBs.