The InvestSense Podcast

The US-Israeli strikes on Iran have markets running the familiar playbook - oil up, gold up, risk assets down. But Andrew Hunt sees a more nuanced picture. Central banks already have a quarter of a trillion dollars in liquidity ready to deploy over the coming weeks, which may stabilise the immediate shock.

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A volatile February ended with markets caught between competing forces: fading tariff uncertainty, a technology sector in flux, and a sharp geopolitical escalation in the Middle East that has injected fresh risk into the outlook.

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Andrew Hunt's outlook has turned notably more cautious since the previous conversation a few weeks earlier. The core thesis centers on a deterioration in global capital flows into the US, which he sees as the key vulnerability markets have been overlooking.

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Whatever else happened in markets last week — and there was plenty — it was all overshadowed by a single event on Friday afternoon. The US Supreme Court, in a 6–3 ruling, struck down the bulk of President Trump's emergency tariffs, finding that IEEPA does not authorise the President to impose import duties. Trump immediately announced a replacement 15% global levy under Section 122 of the Trade Act, though that mechanism carries a 150-day time limit. It is a landmark constitutional moment, and markets are still digesting what comes next.

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The past week delivered a tale of two markets. On one side, a reassuring U.S. inflation print and a surprisingly strong labour market report suggested the American economy remains on solid footing. On the other hand, a punishing rotation out of technology stocks reminded investors that the AI investment boom carries real risks and that concentration in a handful of mega-cap names can cut both ways.

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Markets spent the first week of February grappling with an unusually dense set of cross-currents, an Australian rate hike, a crisis of confidence in big-tech capital spending, volatile commodity prices, and a US data picture clouded by the partial government shutdown. But beneath the headline volatility, the more interesting story may be what's happening under the surface: a rotation trade gaining momentum, unstable correlations, and a growing divergence between Australian and global monetary policy that is robbing Aussie diversified portfolios of their traditional currency cushion.

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Tassos Stassopoulos, founder of Trinetra Investment Management, has spent over two decades focusing on a different opportunity, the emerging market consumer. Trinetra’s approach has always eschewed the tech-heavy markets of North Asia in favour of economies where domestic consumption drives growth: Indonesia, China, Brazil, Peru, and Chile. 

The big driver of the emerging market indices recently has been Korean memory chips and Taiwanese semiconductor foundries. These are undoubtedly impressive businesses, but they present a problem: they move in lockstep with U.S. technology giants. For those seeking genuine diversification, looking elsewhere in the emerging world may provide better portfolio diversification.



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The final week of January delivered a stark reminder that even the most powerful trends can reverse abruptly when the right catalyst emerges. Gold's precipitous 10% fall and silver's eye-watering 30% decline, dominated headlines, yet the month overall proved constructive for diversified portfolios.

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A month after our year-end review, Economist Andrew Hunt's message when we spoke to him earlier this week had sharpened: the U.S. credit boom continues at a blistering pace, but the foreign capital that sustained 2025's rally is becoming erratic. The result is an increasingly binary outlook where timing matters more than ever.

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Markets navigated a turbulent week as the collision of geopolitical uncertainty and shifting monetary policy expectations drove dramatic moves across asset classes, with Australian inflation data adding further fuel to an already volatile mix.

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