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There was a lot for investors to digest last week starting with the Middle East inching slowly towards a ceasefire agreement, the US Fed sounding less hawkish despite the “lack of further progress” in getting inflation down, a cooling jobs report out of the US and some good US earnings results in the first quarter.
Global sharemarkets were mostly positive last week and this helped the S&P/ASX 200 to gain 0.70% and the All Ordinaries Index to rise 0.77%.
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At the start of last week markets were processing the implications of Iran's drone attack on Israel and the possible Israeli response.
Gold and Oil both spiked higher before retreating as markets digested the potential escalation of the current situation. The well-flagged Israeli response later in the week was thankfully relatively small and confined to bombing military targets inside Iran in a move thought to be aimed at de-escalating the conflict. Ne...

Share market sentiment was largely driven by events in the US last week.
Earnings reports showed that tech companies by and large were performing better than expected and along with positive economic data showed that the US is likely headed for a soft landing as opposed to a recession. Meta (Facebook) in particular announced a very strong result and a maiden dividend.
The US Fed also met last week and the quick take-away was that rate rises are over but ...

Australian half-year earnings season gets underway in the first week of February 2024.
Share prices have been on a tear in the second half of January but mostly it is has been on the back of positive news out of the US rather than investors getting in ahead of the results season.
From an economic viewpoint the second half of 2023 saw inflation continuing to fall and the unemployment number remain between 3.6% and 3.9% - historically low numbers. ...