The calendar says “May” and that means investors are being bombarded with historical “evidence” May is not a good month to...
8 May 2017 Bassanese Bites: Global Optimism – Week beginning: 08 May 2017In an otherwise lacklustre week, risk markets nonetheless ended positively following a reassuringly firm US payrolls report on Friday. Importantly,...
3 May 2017 Weekly Insights From The FNArena News Desk 01/05/17A correction for resources stocks plus a tougher going for Australian banks implies fresh money had to flow into other stocks...
26 April 2017 Weekly Insights From The FNArena News Desk 25/04/17It may be hard to imagine today but it wasn’t that long ago, the first half of 2015, when Telstra’s...
18 April 2017 Bassanese Bites: Sabre Rattling Helps Gold – Week beginning: 18 April 2017Geo-political tensions were the main theme of last week, with concerns over a possible US-Russia dispute arising out of the...
12 April 2017 Weekly Insights From The FNArena News Desk 12/04/17Late Winston Churchill was once quoted as: “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after...
5 April 2017 Weekly Insights From The FNArena News Desk 05/04/17One swallow does not a summer make but it appears the upward trending share market in Australia became more inclusive in...
4 April 2017 Bassanese Bites: ASX breaks its range – Week beginning: 03 April 2017The key data highlight this week will be Friday’s US payrolls, with another solid result expected. A key indicator to...
29 March 2017 Weekly Insights From The FNArena News Desk 29/03/17What can be seen is that financial markets maintain little appetite for a sizeable pull back, let alone an old...
27 March 2017 Bassanese Bites: Taxing Times – Week beginning: 27 March 2017The key development last week was US President Trump’s failure to get his health care changes through Congress. The US...