Contents Government Bonds Central Banks US Share Market Rally Australian Property Update NZ Property Market Update A world of new lows Market indicators are now suggesting that the world is slowing faster than most Central Banks had expected, and the chance of interest rates moving higher in 2019 has reduced from approximately 50/50 to now be almost zero percent. As suggested in previous commentary the European Central Bank, US Federal Reserve and other central banks in the developed world have signalled they wish to continue to support lower interest rates
China/US trade war – He said, Xi said Coming into the US mid-term elections (where the Republicans lost control of House of Representatives to the Democrats) President Trump’s rhetoric was strongly anti-China. Post the mid-terms his tone has become more accommodative to China. The G20 has produced 90-days of breathing room in the all-important trade war between China and the US. President Trump met with President Xi Jinping, where they apparently discussed 142 different structural items, including the removal of forced joint ventures and loss of intellectual property for US
