Friday 24th September, 2021 ________________________________________ It has been a busy fortnight with no shortage of economic data releases, policy statements, and corporate and political events for market participants to price (or at least try to). The reactions to the barrage of news flow have...
Friday 10th September, 2021 ________________________________________ Equities have been on a downwards path for much of this week as concerns grow among investors that US and European central banks will soon begin to taper their massive asset purchase programmes in response to consumer price infl...
Friday 27th August, 2021 ________________________________________ Most markets have been in recovery mode this week, following a period of consolidation amid concerns about the economic impact of (gradual but increasingly imminent) monetary stimulus withdrawal in the US, the spread of the Delta v...
Friday 13th August, 2021 ________________________________________ Global equities have seen strong performance in August so far, with European stocks leading the pack. By the close of trading on Thursday, the pan-European STOXX 600 Index was up +2.8% for the month – and the benchmark has made f...
Friday 30th July, 2021 ________________________________________ A raft of global economic data was released this week; and, for the most part, it confirms what we can see with our own eyes: growth is bouncing back right across the Western world as restrictions ease as consumers and companies get ...
Friday 16th July, 2021 ________________________________________ This week we discuss the need for portfolio diversification in an uncertain world, the narrowing of the US market, Fed Chair Powell’s testimony on Capitol Hill, and the inflation tail risk. Global equities have seen mixed performan...
Friday 2nd July, 2021 ________________________________________ With June coming to a close, we can look back over the last 6 months and come to the clear conclusion that the first half of 2021 has been a good one for risk assets. Markets have been buoyed by positive headlines as vaccination progr...
