Financial

In this week’s data insight we focus our attention on the final earnings season of 2024, with financials taking centre stage. Following a disappointing festive season for equity returns, this quarterly earnings report is crucial for the equity market to set a positive tone for 2025.

The S&P 500 achieved a remarkable gain of over 23% in 2024, marking back-to-back annual increases of over 20%. However, when we delve deeper into this figure, it is interesting to see the disparity in returns among individual stocks that make up what is arguably the world’s most important stock index. In our first Seaspray

This week’s data insight looks at the past growth in equity and gold markets over consecutive 10 year periods, while also focusing on NVIDIA’s earnings call.

This week, several important earnings reports were released from companies outside the United States, featuring major conglomerates from China and Japan, as well as key companies from Canada and the United Kingdom.

Earnings season concluded this week, with the majority of major global companies having released their Q3 results. However, several significant reports emerged this week from both the US and Europe.

Earnings season continued this week, with some of the largest companies in the world reporting their Q3 earnings. This included five of the seven Magnificent 7, as well as major pharmaceutical and financial companies.

Earnings season continued this week, with more prominent companies unveiling their Q3 results across various sectors.

 This week’s announcements were primarily dominated by the financial sector, featuring major banking players such as Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America among the key earnings releases. Elsewhere, Netflix, Johnson and Johnson and Abbot were the other key releases.

With a record budget surplus and a favourable economic outlook, now is an opportune moment to analyse Ireland’s Economic strength in our latest data insight.

In our latest data insight we highlight the OECD who this week released its September Economic Outlook for the world’s largest economies.

This week in our data insights we focus on the performance of the S&P500 post rate-cut as the Federal Reserve this week began its interest rate-cut cycle, as well as highlighting its revised projections for the U.S. economy for 2024, 2025, and 2026.