Trade tariffs

While the issue of the trade war between the US and China has dominated news flow this year, July was the first month in which it became a reality with US tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese goods going live. However, despite the tariffs,… Read More

Gold Gold prices were softer this week, but only just, managing to rally up off initial lows on the week as the US Dollar traded lower. The weakness in USD came in response to a report that President Trump told the Wall Street Journal he… Read More

Two days of talks between a Chinese delegation and US officials in Washington came to a fruitless end last week, resulting in both the US and China enacting a fresh round of tariffs on each other to the tune of $32 billion combined ($16… Read More

The global markets had one recurring nightmare – a trade war between the world’s two largest and most influential economies. We are talking about none other than the United States and China. While much of the rhetoric which made… Read More

The trade war theme which has dominated the markets over 2018, taking another turn for the worse over the weekend. The market had been hopeful of some moderation in the conflict between the US and China following a positive meeting between… Read More

Growth “Strong” As expected, following the last .25% rate rise in June, the Fed kept policy unchanged at its August meeting with a statement that was mostly unchanged from last time. However, the statement did contain a few subtle but… Read More

Another week and another new chapter in the trade war saga has been written. Following Trump’s recent implementation of tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods and China’s subsequent retaliation of equal measure, the US has now… Read More

Gold After suffering consecutive weeks of declines over the last month, the yellow metal was able to rebound higher this week as safe haven inflows saw steady demand. With the market bracing for the implementation of bilateral US/ Chinese… Read More