FLAU News and Press, Franklin FTSE Australia From 03/11/22

Investors are increasingly looking for straightforward ways to align their investments with their personal views on environmental and societal issues. While the Global Choice screening process can have a significant impact on the composition of certain industries, our research found t...

It’s been another week of significant volatility in financial markets, one in which European indices edged closer to bear market territory, oil prices hit a 10-year high around $120, and safe-haven gold came close to $2,000. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the severe sancti...

The JPMorgan Global Manufacturing PMI rose from a 15-month low of 53.2 in January to 53.6 in February. The relative weakness of February's global output growth by historical standards contrasted with a more robust expansion of order books recorded during the month. The reduction i...

It’s been another week of significant volatility in financial markets and there’s little reason to expect next week will be any different. The tragic events in Ukraine will continue to have a big impact on the markets in the coming weeks as it becomes clear what Vladimir...

APAC economies Japan and Australia saw their paths diverge amid mixed COVID-19 Omicron developments. It was also observed that with the COVID-19 wave, the pressure upon prices shifted from input costs to output prices. Business sentiment amongst Japan and Australia private sector ...

The focus shifts in the week ahead away from central banks directly and toward the macro data at the start of the year. The US real sector data in the week ahead includes January retail sales and industrial production. Several other major countries report January inflation figures...

Inflation and interest rates have been at the forefront of investors’ minds so far this year and that’s unlikely to change for some time yet. Earnings season provided a welcome and timely distraction and enabled markets to find some stability but as we saw towards the en...

The global central bank community has been wrong on inflation. Euro zone inflation rose to a new record high last month, defying expectations for a big drop and piling pressure on the European Central Bank to finally admit that price growth is not as temporary and benign as it has lon...

The Fed is done with speaking appearances for the year, so thin trading conditions should settle in once we get past Thursday’s economic data. The European central bank is poised to end new purchases under PEPP in March at which point the APP will be doubled before being pared ...

December's preliminary PMI numbers provided a more solemn note to end the year. Growth momentum across the world's largest developed economies revealed to have eased in the final month of the year. The latest COVID-19 Omicron variant developments add further downside risks to the ...