Market Concerns The fear of a second wave of coronavirus infections The collapse in corporate earnings The shocks reverberating from the economic data Pick-up in […]

Making Sense Of It All The coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns imposed by governments have pushed the global economy into the sharpest downturn since the Great […]

On Feb 19th the FTSE was 7,457.0. On March the 12th (a day in which the market fell 10.9%) the index closed at 5,237.50 representing […]

US US-China trade issues, with the US imposing hundreds of billions of tariffs on Chinese imports, and China responding accordingly, have been a major concern […]

Global Economy Although there is concern around global economic growth, that is not really reflected in asset prices with US equity markets trading close to […]

Interest Rates We have a world where either economic growth is stagnating or there is a fear of such stagnation! Europe is one of the […]

Global Markets Remain Volatile Equities Donald Trump’s sudden escalations of trade tensions with China have rattled global markets, triggering a sell-off in equities and a […]

Equities & Interest Rates Last week Equity Mutual Funds (in UK we refer to such funds as Unit Trusts) around the world attracted their biggest […]

Equities Global equities are down from their highs for the year on the back of US/China trade concerns but have not sold off significantly. Investors […]

Equities Generally global stocks have had a strong start to the second quarter of the year with perceived progress around US /China trade talks and […]