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.
Taking Stock – OECD Global Economies Growth Forecast & Total S&P Returns Read More »
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.
Taking Stock – S&P500 Performance post Rate-Cut & Latest US Economic Projections Read More »
As we have discussed in our previous insights, the US labour data has quickly become a point of concern for the Federal Reserve, with fears that the labour market may be cooling too fast and a spike in unemployment could trigger a wider rout in the economy. While this is a legitimate concern in the
Taking Stock – Global Growth Landscape & Equity Performance post rate cuts Read More »
Recent weeks have highlighted how Central Banks, and indeed wider financial markets have shifted their attention from inflation rates, which continue to fall in all major Western economies, and towards the labour market.
In market cap terms, Japan has the second largest stock market in the world. But who are these large companies, and who have been the top performers on the Nikkei so far in 2024?
Earnings season concluded this week, with the majority of significant companies from both sides of the Atlantic having reported their results. There were however a few key earnings left which we outline in our latest data insights below:
