Markets The S&P 500 closed on Friday beating a record high for the third consecutive day but the weekly gain was just 1.4%. Most other global equity markets displayed mildly positive or stable performances thanks... Read MoreRead More
Markets Wall Street last Wednesday suffered the worst daily plunge in 8 months as a political storm hit President Trump after the dismissal of FBI Director Comey and the innuendos that State secrets might have... Read MoreRead More
Markets Global markets were mixed last week with the emerging and Asian markets advancing strongly, while Wall Street and Europe were on the back foot due to rather weak US data. Regional markets were mostly... Read MoreRead More
Markets Global equities rose for a sixth straight month in Apr, and opened the new month on an optimistic note, with European markets strongly up and the S&P 500 closing at a record high, while... Read MoreRead More
Markets A rollercoaster week on global stock markets started with a bang, in the wake of Macron’s win in the French elections and positive earnings from blue chips. As a result, the Nasdaq composite touched... Read MoreRead More
Markets Stock markets globally edged up last week on renewed hopes of a fiscal stimulus in the US, and easing global geopolitical tensions. The main exception was the FTSE100, which plunged after UK Premier May’s... Read MoreRead More
Markets Investors continue to focus on rising geopolitical tensions, despite a good kick off of the Q1 earnings season. The US are threatening a military intervention to remove Syrian President Assad (irking Russia and Iran)... Read MoreRead More
Markets Another week that saw markets influenced more by geopolitics and expectations over central bank action rather than by macro data. In particular the Dow and S&P last Wed posted their record one-day drop in... Read MoreRead More
Markets Last week started with Wall Street still badly digesting the Obamacare repeal fiasco, but strong consumer confidence data lifted stocks on Tuesday and the main US indices ended the week more or less unchanged.... Read MoreRead More
Markets The fiasco on the Obamacare repeal spooked the euphoria on Wall Street, dashing expectations of momentous business-friendly reforms passed in the first 100 day of the Trump Administration. The S&P 500 lost 1.4% for... Read MoreRead More
