Pavan Sharma

weekly 5 june 19

The US market (measured by the S&P 500 index) experienced its biggest May slump since 2010.

New Zealand’s Treasury acknowledged the trade tensions between the US and China in its budget forecasts as a threat to the domestic economy if the dispute slows growth in this country’s major trading partners.

Global markets continued to sell off overnight as Wall Street’s main indexes hit a near three-month low.