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Central banks are expected to spend 2021 enforcing their ultra-easy monetary policies, despite the expected pick-up in economic activity around the globe, away from last year’s coronavirus-inflicted recession. Governments worldwide are also expected to sustain .
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The New Year has started on the same foot that it ended, with animal spirits pushing markets to record levels. Sentiment has been supported by the passage of fresh Covid-19 relief in the US, as .
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The year 2020 has been a remarkable one to say the least, with the global spread of the Covid-19 virus being the limelight. Just as the world was getting confident that the worst is behind .
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Banks to resume restricted dividend payments
Full Story | Simon Psaila - Financial Analyst | 14th December 2020Reports are emerging indicating that Europe’s top financial regulators are in the final stages of allowing the region’s strongest banks to restart dividend payments within strict limits. The European Central Bank’s supervisory board allegedly plans .
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After a few days of wrangling and intense diplomacy, OPEC+ reached a consensus decision last Thursday about its near-term policy. Undoubtedly, negotiations were tough given that countries highly dependent on oil revenues to balance their .
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As we head into December and the Christmas season this week, there are still a number of important market highlights to look out for. Data releases include the US jobs report and the November PMIs, .
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The most important events of the last two weeks have undoubtedly been the Pfizer/ BioNTech and Moderna vaccine news. Earlier this morning, AstraZeneca/Oxford also released the results of their trials, with a significant success rate .
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It feels like yesterday that back in March, as news flowed about a serious “flu-like” virus that was spreading in China that I jumped in on a conference call with an epidemiologist who was closely .
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The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the macro economy across the globe in 2020; however, China’s experience has diverged significantly from the rest of the world. Adding fuel to conspiracy theories is the fact that on .
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Market Performance Review for October
Full Story | Simon Psaila - Financial Analyst | 2nd November 2020October saw a sharp decline in risk sentiment across financial markets from the post-Covid highs of late summer, as case counts are rising to new highs across Europe and the US. Market performance remains inextricably .