Market Briefing: September 29, 2026
### Market Briefing: September 29, 2026
- **Global Overview:** Global risk appetite is under strain from a broad inflation and yields complex, with sticky price pressures resurfacing from Spain to Belgium, bond yields climbing across developed markets, and elevated crude prices squeezing import-dependent economies from India to the Philippines.
- **Asia Pacific:** The region is split, as Singapore's factory output surge and Taiwan's strong domestic indicators contrast with South Korea's foreign selling and multi-year high yields, while India's rupee breaking below 96 per dollar deepened an equity slide toward six-month lows and Australia's central bank lifted rates to a 15-year high.
- **Europe:** Inflation surprises dominated the tape, with Spain's flash CPI at a three-and-a-half-year high and Belgium's acceleration to its highest since May 2023, while France's debt load climbing to 119% of GDP and Germany's reported move to block a Chinese acquisition of a logistics firm added fiscal and geopolitical friction to an otherwise subdued German session.
- **North America:** The US session stayed rangebound and sector-driven, with semiconductors rebounding on AI infrastructure momentum while banks and healthcare drifted lower, and Canada digested flat July GDP alongside a US import ban deepening trade friction, partially offset by energy strength.
- **Asset Classes:** Energy assets climbed as Saudi crude exports rebounded toward pre-disruption levels, gold sat near multi-week lows with cash favored over bullion, bonds slumped to a monthly loss as rate expectations shifted, and Latin American assets from Colombia to Brazil declined on fiscal strain and rising inflation expectations.
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