11 April 2018

Weekly Insights From The FNArena News Desk 09/04/18

After what turned out an unusually low volatile and robust uptrend in 2017, at least for US equities, the outlook for calendar 2018 was always going to be less predictable, and potentially a lot tougher. But only a few would have predicted things were about to dramatically change this early into the new calendar year.

Wall Street still had a few more weeks of unabated continuation of last year’s market exuberance before anti-vol derivatives and the ugly side of bond market moves announced themselves. In Australia, the ASX200 has barely had a peek into what year-to-date positive performance looks like. And now US President Donald Trump is prepared to play all-or-nothing in a public game of political poker, or so it seems….

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