Thursday April 12th 2018

When a President tweets that US missiles “will be coming” to Syria, incorporating a challenge to Russia, it’s expected that markets might react. As Phi Dobbie discusses with NAB’s David de Garis equity markets responded a little but clawed back some of the losses as the day progressed. So, if that was the key influence in the first part of the overnight session, what’s driving market sentiment now? The FOMC minutes drew some attention but, it seems, without Trump’s access to Twitter things would be rather quiet.