Equities Global equity markets have rallied modestly over the past fortnight helped by a rebound in commodity prices including oil. The sectors that were hit […]

Equities After the tremendous volatility of Q1 that saw equity and commodity markets plummet in January and February only for prices to recover sharply, most […]

Equities Equity markets are broadly unchanged over the last fortnight and markets are generally a lot calmer and much less volatile than the beginning of […]

  The recovery in the prices of global risk assets has continued over the last fortnight as a result of a recovery in commodity prices […]

Equities Equity markets have rallied strongly over the past couple of weeks recovering sharply from the bank credit concern inspired sell-off of a couple of weeks […]

Equities Last week global equity markets fell with a ferocity similar to the 2008 financial crisis.There was no clear single catalyst but rather an accumulation […]

China & Oil Continue To Drive Markets China’s GDP growth last year was 6.9%, very healthy by Western standards, but the slowest rate of growth by […]

  Since the start of the year the China sell-off has sparked carnage across global financial markets. Equity indices in Japan and Europe have lost […]

In some ways this is going to be a watershed year. Having flirted with deflation, most developed economies will now experience a return to more […]

Interest Rates Markets finally witnessed the first rise in US interest rates for over 9 years with the US Federal Reserve increasing the ‘Fed Funds’ […]