Mark Lister

On Point with Craig's Investment Partners.

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Welcome to On Point.

I'm Mark Lister, Investment Director at Craig's Investment Partners, and I'll be talking about a range of topics including economics, portfolio strategy, investor education, and anything else that's happening out there in financial markets.

Enjoy your week.

First of all, my thoughts are with all of our Christchurch-based listeners.

I know that was a tough night for you on Friday night against the Chiefs, so apologies for that.

My team, the Warriors, are playing the Sharks tonight, so that will be behind us by the time you hear this.

Hopefully we get the win.

Financial markets were also volatile, many of them very up and down over the course of last week, but most of them did finish higher.

We've got hopes of a deal between Iran and the US that has boosted sentiment.

Yes, we've been here before, haven't we?

But hopefully there is some more substance to it this time.

I'm sure we'll hear more about that in the coming days.

The S&P 500 index in the US was up 0.6%.

The UK was up 1%.