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Markets have had a jumpy week, enough to make even the most confident planner rethink.

ASX lifts as miners and banks rally

The Australian sharemarket has started the week in positive territory, as technology giant Apple celebrates a victory overseas.

  • Gemma Grant

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Apple has spent decades building a finely calibrated supply chain in China.

The contradictions in Trump’s trade policies are on display

Donald Trump’s exemption of electronic goods from his tariffs highlights the inconsistency, lack of logic and the risks for the US in the way he is pursuing his trade war on everyone.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
While a wash of green on market screens may tempt investors to jump in, analysts are warning against irrational exuberance.

Trump says now is a ‘great time to buy’. Is he right?

While a wash of green on market screens may tempt investors to jump in, analysts are warning against irrational exuberance.

  • William Bennett

‘Mad king’ Trump was facing a financial crisis, so he capitulated

There were desperate efforts from White House staff to spin Trump’s backdown as the latest example of his deal-making genius. But surprisingly, the man himself told the truth.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump is making life very difficult for an old enemy

Fed chair Jerome Powell has, not for the first time, found himself between a rock and a hard place. It didn’t have to be like this.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Fixed income isn’t just a hedge against stock market volatility. It’s an asset class that aims to provide predictable cashflow for those seeking it.

Can these ‘old school’ investments protect you from falling markets?

Every sharemarket correction teaches us that it often pays to diversify your investments, which can provide a much-needed cushion when equities plunge.

  • Gaby Rosenberg
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Trump’s tariffs are not having the effects he was after.

Is Trump sending America into a financial crisis? We’re about to find out

The ways markets are reacting to Trump’s tariffs paint a very threatening picture of the outlook for the US and the world.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott (right) and chairman Paul O’Sullivan.

ANZ blasted for years-long governance failures, slapped with $1 billion capital charge

ANZ has been forced to do a widespread review into its entire organisation after the financial regulator flagged issues stemming from the bonds trading scandal “may be present in other parts of the bank”.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
Bond traders are worried that President Donald Trump’s chaotic tariff rollouts and federal-workforce cuts will hurt the US economy,

More than $20b wiped off ASX as tariff terrors spook markets

Analysts are warning of more choppiness ahead for the Australian sharemarket amid rising anxiety that Trump’s tariffs will start a recession in the US and destabilise global markets.

  • Cindy Yin
Donald Trump’s escalating trade war has set off a market sell-down on Wall Street and on stock exchanges around the world.

Has the market’s Trump bet been wiped out? Maybe – or maybe not

Investors are confused whether the market sell-down in response to Donald Trump’s punitive trade policies will prompt him to limit them after all, after his Commerce secretary flagged a potential tariff compromise.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/topic/bond-market-5v3