NewsBite

Alex Gluyas

This Month

The jobless rate ticked higher in March.

Still-tight jobs market unlikely to derail May rate cut

Economists still expect the RBA to cut rates next month despite employment increasing by 32,200 in March.

How these three growth funds are playing the tech slump

Some of Australia’s best performing funds, which rode the dazzling rally in Wall Street’s tech giants, have been confronted with a violent sell-off. Here’s what they did next.

Gold edged down from a record high on Monday but is expected to resume its rally imminently.

Gold could hit $US4500 as confidence in US havens crumbles

An exodus from American investments has swiftly pushed bullion back to a record level as the precious metal solidifies itself as the “premier” safe asset.

The ASX has taken centre stage this week, but the volatility has been nothing compared to Wall Street

Investors find refuge on ASX as Wall Street giants lose their lustre

The slump in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq has been far more pronounced than the local market this week, just as traders dump the US government bond and greenback.

Fund managers say there are plenty of opportunities despite the market turmoil this week.

Eight ideas on how to play a roller-coaster sharemarket

Uncertainty abounds – will global tariffs make a return? How far will a China trade war go? But some of our biggest investors are seeing big opportunities.

Advertisement
Donald Trump’s decision to reverse tariffs, albiet for 90 days, sent Wall Street and the ASX surging.

Traders brace for months of pain despite $100 billion relief rally

Oaktree’s Howard Marks said it was impossible to know where the Trump administration would take its tariff plans, even as their delay sent the ASX 200 soaring.

Traders are being warned to brace for further pain ahead.

‘Huge’ profit downgrade cycle bears down on Wall Street

Analysts have barely budged their earnings forecasts for the world’s most important sharemarket despite recession alarms blaring, leaving equities vulnerable to a big reality check.

Trillions of dollars were wiped from Wall Street over just two days last week. Markets have see-sawed ever since.

The four tiers of fear for investors in a market meltdown

From a “garden-variety pullback” to “major crisis”, analysts at RBC Capital Markets are war-gaming where the Trump tariff volatility could take Wall Street.

Traders have swiftly dumped commodities exposed to Trump’s trade war.

Advice for commodities investors? Sell, sell, then keep selling

Major Wall Street brokers are telling clients to resist the temptation to buy into metals and oil as prices fall, warning economic disruption is not over.

Markets across the globe tumbled as investors digested the impact of Trump’s tariffs.

Market rout hits $97b and investors fear there are billions more to go

Brokers and fund managers said the Trump administration’s tariffs were threatening to turn into a full-blown economic crisis as global markets plunged.

The S&P 500 slumped 5.97 per cent on Friday, closing out its worst week since the COVID pandemic.

Investors brace for $115b ASX wipeout amid ‘peak uncertainty’

Futures indicate Australian shares will sink 4.3 per cent at the open on Monday as panic flares that the world’s largest economy is headed for a recession.

US stock futures plunged following Trump’s Liberation Day speech.

Markets brace for severe economic shock from Trump’s tariff storm

It was a sea of red across Asia with more than $21 billion erased from the ASX, but brokers say Australia is in a good position to weather the volatility.

The US is home to 94 nuclear reactors that power tens of millions of homes and offices.

Uranium stocks dumped as market ‘paralysis’ intensifies

The sell-off is feeding into the hands of hedge funds, which are heavily shorting the industry in Australia.

Traders have piled into gold ahead of Trump’s announcement of sweeping levies on all of America’s trading partners on Wednesday.

Gold soars to $5000 in ‘once in 40-year gift’ for investors, fundies

The relentless rally has pushed the gold price almost 20 per cent higher this year, its best quarter since 1986. Money managers can see opportunities.

March

The Australian sharemarket has shed nearly 9 per cent since hitting a record in February.

ASX’s $42b wipeout seals worst start to year since COVID crash

The local bourse has been swept up in the exodus on Wall Street as investors brace for Trump’s tariffs that could trigger a violent rotation out of risky assets.

Advertisement
Minotaur’s Thomas Rice believes markets are yet to recognise how European defence company earnings will evolve over the next decade.

This fundie shorted WiseTech and Tesla while loading up on war stocks

Betting against Richard White and Elon Musk while going long on defence companies are among this year’s hottest trades. Minotaur’s Tom Rice did it all.

Michele Bullock.

‘Solid case’ for rate cuts next week, says Goldman Sachs

The investment bank has told clients the market is underestimating the chances that the RBA will reduce the cash rate in April.

Molten copper flowing in China, a top consumer of the metal.

Copper hits record as Trump tariffs wrong-foot traders

Reports that Trump could impose tariffs on the metal within weeks has intensified the rush to ship it into the US, lighting a fire under ASX-listed mining companies.

CIO panel left to right: VFMC’s Russell Clark, AustralianSuper’s Mark Delaney and Hostplus’ Sam Sicilia.

Super funds ‘stomach the volatility’ until equities rebound

Hostplus CIO Sam Sicilia is preparing for a sharp bounce in equity markets, while AustralianSuper’s Mark Delaney hasn’t touched his portfolio.

A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange last week. The market has recovered slightly from a long slide caused by fears of a recession in the United States.

These are the four big roadblocks to a proper ASX bounce back

Fresh off its best weekly gain this year, the local market is no longer at the edge of a correction. Morgan Stanley warns the rebound could be short-lived.

Original URL: https://www.afr.com/by/alex-gluyas-p4yw7q