Equities US equity markets are treading water somewhat with Trump’s positive coronavirus test throwing the US election into turmoil. Investors had already been bracing themselves […]

The US main equity market, the S&P 500 Index, has reclaimed its pre-coronavirus peak and is notching fresh records almost daily, yet many fund managers […]

Equities US stocks posted the best rally since 1998 in the second quarter. A strong rebound from the 20 per cent drop in the first […]

Global Equities Hopes of a rebound for virus-hit economies continues to dominate investor sentiment. The large amount of Central Bank stimulus is making it almost […]

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 […]