See the latest developments in the financial markets and a summary of key macroeconomic data from around the globe and in Australia. Our Daily Reports focus on data that has been published during the previous trading day.
- 28 Oct 2025 Daily Report 28 October 2025
US stocks started the trading week with fresh record highs, boosted by hopes for easing in US-China trade tensions after the meeting between the countries’ leaders later this week.
- 27 Oct 2025 Daily Report 27 October 2025
Wall Street saw fresh record highs on Friday, as the downside surprise in the US CPI figures strengthened the case for another fed funds rate cut later this week.
- 24 Oct 2025 Daily Report 24 October 2025
US equities regained Wednesday’s losses, led by energy sector shares as the US market caught up with the Trump Administration’s announcement yesterday that it would impose a fresh set of sanctions on major Russian oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil.
- 23 Oct 2025 Daily Report 23 October 2025
US stocks retreated last night, dragged down by disappointing earnings from some major companies and concerns over potentially more restrictions on software exports to China.
- 22 Oct 2025 Daily Report 22 October 2025
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed nearly flat overnight, with no major economic news or other events to provide guidance. However, the major news overnight was a huge drop in the gold price, the strongest one since August 2020.
- 21 Oct 2025 Daily Report 21 October 2025
US stocks saw solid gains overnight, supported by good earnings results and hopes that the upcoming talks between the US and China will lead to a de-escalation in trade tensions.