Stephen Letts

6 days ago | abc.net.au | Stephen Letts

Good morning and welcome to another week on the ABC markets and finance blog. Stephen Letts from ABC business team limbering up for a blow-by-blow coverage of the day's events, where every post is hopefully a winner, but none should be construed as financial advice. In short, it looks like a marginally positive start to the week after Wall Street ended a volatile Friday session going nowhere. Futures trading points to the ASX gaining 0.1% on opening.

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Stephen Letts

Good morning and welcome to another week on the ABC markets and finance blog. Stephen Letts from ABC business team limbering up for a blow-by-blow coverage of the day's events, where every post is hopefully a winner, but none should be construed as financial advice. In short, it looks like a negative start to the week after Wall Street slumped on Friday when US President Donald Trump started cranking out new tariff threats against Europe and Apple.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Stephen Letts

8 hours agoLet me start with a prediction: the S&P 500 will gain about 5% this year—not great, but not bad, either. This isn’t really a Nostradamus-level call: I’m simply annualizing the gain the market has posted so far in 2025, as of this writing. We can think of this year as the middle stage of the business …

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Stephen Letts

Good morning and welcome to another week on the ABC markets and finance blog. Stephen Letts from ABC business team limbering up for a blow-by-blow coverage of the day's events, where every post is hopefully a winner, but none should be construed as financial advice. In short, it looks like a mildly negative start to the week on the local market despite Wall Street gaining ground on Friday.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Stephen Letts

Good morning and welcome to another week on the ABC markets and finance blog. Stephen Letts from ABC business team limbering up for a blow-by-blow coverage of the day's events, where every post is hopefully a winner, but none should be construed as financial advice. In short, it looks like a mildly positive start to the week on the local market despite Wall Street losing ground on FridayFutures trading points to the ASX gaining 0.2% on opening.