MPFQ753 Finance | Driving Factors of Global Financial Market
Questions:
1. Task 1 – Watch, review, research: Your first task is to review sheet “Market Data”. Watch the first Assignment Video. This introduction to key events and driving factors in global financial markets will assist you in putting your assignment in context. Your aim is to get an understanding of your study period for this assignment. You can also do some research on financial market drivers over the past few years.2. Task 2 – Research: Do some research on your allocated company. Find out what the company’s core operations are to get an understanding of its industry/ sector. Write a discussion to describe your company, its operations and its sector. Ensure you provide appropriate in-text and end-text referencing in your final report. ill provide you the data
Answer:
Task 1
Market trend
It has been identified from the above figure that the market trends for the shares are increasing. The share price of S&P/ASX 200 has been increased from 5033.90 to 5909.00 over the last five years period from 10–2 –2013 to 11-2-2018. In the same way, the Share price of JB Hi-Fi has been increased from 8.4699 to 25.7247 over the last five years period from 10–2 –2013 to 11-2-2018. Therefore, the market trends for both the stocks are upward moving (JBH.AX : Summary for JB HI-FI FPO - Yahoo Finance, 2018).
Driving factors and key factors of the global financial market from 2013-2018
The key drivers for the last five years in the global financial markets are mentioned below –
- The investors kept close look on the 4 key drivers – liquidity, earnings, China and the Fed
- These factors are expected to leave the market till the end of 2018 at the position of somewhere between the strong mid-cycle return for the year 2017 and more dynamic economy for the year 2019.
During the period it was observed that the openness of EU towards the new members and acceptance of coexistence for different degree of the integration or various political identities eventually led to advantages. Stability of EU created close cooperation to the neighbouring countries and the regions were greatly benefitted in financial aspect. Coping with the complexity became the strength for EU. However, the efforts were required for standardising the products and harmonise the rules further (Bank, 2018).
The year 2016 was difficult and challenging for the global economy and the global growth started rising after number of the weak years. Further, the rate of global GDP was 3.5% that was lower as compared to the 4.5% average for the last decade; however, it was better than the last 5 years average.
However, the year 2017 was for the investors. Thus, the stock market of US enjoyed the unparalleled combination of low and high volatility during 2017. In fact risk adjusted return for S&P 500 Index in November was 99th percentile since 2013. The driving forces behind the spectacular dynamic of risk-return were the strong growth of earnings and the easy conditions of liquidity. Owing to this, the S&P 500 index has been raised by 3 points that is from 18.5 to 21.7 since the election of 2016.
(Source: Market Analysis: Driving Financial Factors In The 2018 Stock Market – Fidelity, 2018).
Table 1 – Calculation
It is identified from table 1 that the average weekly return for S&P/ASX 200 is lower as compared to JB Hi-Fi and at the same time the standard deviation of S&P/ASX 200 is also lower as compared to JB Hi-Fi. The maximum weekly return and minimum weekly return of S&P/ASX 200 is 4.5071% and -5.7611% respectively whereas the maximum weekly return and minimum weekly return of JB Hi-Fi is 10.8956% and -9.6794% respectively. However, the risk to rewards ratio of JB HI-FI is significantly lowers that is 7.5566 as compared to S&P/ASX 200 that is 22.6963 (JBH.AX : Summary for JB HI-FI FPO - Yahoo Finance, 2018).
Task 2
Company details
Established in 1974, JB Hi-Fi is one of the largest providers for the products related to home entertainment at the discounted price and it is positioned for appealing both enthusiasts as well as price sensitive consumers. It maintains low operating cost model that is designed to maintain the competitive pricing at store level. The company’s principle activity is retailing for the home consumer related products from the stand alone destination areas online stores and locations for shopping centre. It offers wide range of the leading brands particularly focussing on the software and consumer electronics that includes movies, games and music (JB Hi-Fi | JB Hi-Fi - Australia's Largest Home Entertainment Retailer, 2018).
Industry and Operation of the company
The company belongs to the retail industry. JB Hi-Fi ia the retailer for consumer goods and carries on its business in New Zealand and Australia. The company is specialised in Ultra HD Blu-rays, Video games, hardware, electronics, mobile phones, computer, tablets, car audio and GPS, audio instrument and equipments, electrical home appliances and wide number of Telstra services. The company also operates through online store. The commercial division of the company offers telecommunication and electronic products to the business that includes education and hospitality sectors. It also operates the discount electrical superstores all over Australia except in Tasmania that is named as JB Hi-Fi HOME. Various goods sold are Whitegoods, consumer electronics, air conditioning and cooking appliances (JB Hi-Fi | JB Hi-Fi - Australia's Largest Home Entertainment Retailer, 2018).
Reference
Bank, E. (2018). Global Financial Markets 2015: looking ahead - Ten theses - Liechtenstein Dialogue, Liechtenstein. European Central Bank. Retrieved 5 May 2018, from https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2005/html/sp051028_1.en.html
JB Hi-Fi | JB Hi-Fi - Australia's Largest Home Entertainment Retailer. (2018). Jbhifi.com.au. Retrieved 3 May 2018, from https://www.jbhifi.com.au/
JBH.AX : Summary for JB HI-FI FPO - Yahoo Finance. (2018). Finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 3 May 2018, from https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/jbh.ax?ltr=1
Market Analysis: Driving Financial Factors In The 2018 Stock Market - Fidelity. (2018). Fidelity.com. Retrieved 5 May 2018, from https://www.fidelity.com/viewpoints/market-and-economic-insights/2018-stock-market-analysis
