It’s been another eventful week for financial markets with action across currency, commodity and stock markets.

Asian shares struggled for direction this morning as concerns about inflation and the outlook for economic growth weighed on sentiment.

Gold kicked off the week on a steady note despite last Friday’s blowout jobs report cooling recession fears and reinforcing expectations for more aggressive Federal Reserve interest rate hikes.

Financial markets were injected with fresh volatility this week as geopolitical tensions between the United States and China rocked sentiment.