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Global sharemarkets mostly rallied last week on the back of strong US earnings results and a number of central bank indicators that inflation was slowly being tamed.
Sweden’s Riksbank somewhat unexpectedly cut their interest rates by 0.25% as their inflation targets were close to being met. The Swiss National Bank was the first major Central Bank to cut rates after the pandemic back in March and last week the Bank of England made dovish comments that sug...

There was a lot for investors to digest last week starting with the Middle East inching slowly towards a ceasefire agreement, the US Fed sounding less hawkish despite the “lack of further progress” in getting inflation down, a cooling jobs report out of the US and some good US earnings results in the first quarter.
Global sharemarkets were mostly positive last week and this helped the S&P/ASX 200 to gain 0.70% and the All Ordinaries Index to rise 0.77%.
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Stockland's CEO, Tarun Gupta, is optimistic about the residential property market, citing early signs of improvement. The company expects strong performance from its Masterplanned Communities business once interest rates peak and monetary policy eases.

Share market sentiment was largely driven by events in the US last week.
Earnings reports showed that tech companies by and large were performing better than expected and along with positive economic data showed that the US is likely headed for a soft landing as opposed to a recession. Meta (Facebook) in particular announced a very strong result and a maiden dividend.
The US Fed also met last week and the quick take-away was that rate rises are over but ...

Australian half-year earnings season gets underway in the first week of February 2024.
Share prices have been on a tear in the second half of January but mostly it is has been on the back of positive news out of the US rather than investors getting in ahead of the results season.
From an economic viewpoint the second half of 2023 saw inflation continuing to fall and the unemployment number remain between 3.6% and 3.9% - historically low numbers. ...