Before we move on to the main event we thought we’d share the following from last week’s State of Nation address by US President Barack Obama. It’s not the focus of today’s note but it really does say so much.  “Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.” —President Obama, 2016 State […]

Brutal. Can be the only way to describe what happened in Financial Markets over the last week. Worst start for stock markets, ever! One of the driving catalysts was a Chinese move to more aggressively devalue their currency in the face of rapidly deteriorating domestic economic conditions. Once they realised the damage they were doing they pulled back […]

Before we move onto that which most effects investments of a non-active manner in Australia, that is, overseas events, we thought it timely to make a brief comment on the state of play here Down-Under.   We’d not want to be in the Prime Minister or Treasurer’s position at this juncture. This morning in the […]