Equity markets saw good gains last week as worries eased of a forceful Iranian retaliation to the US strikes on its nuclear facilities. This followed Iran’s well telegraphed and limited … Read More

Harold Wilson’s quip sixty years ago that “a week is a long time in politics” continues to resonate – and not just in politics! In a busy week for data … Read More

Looking at last week’s market moves, you would be hard pressed to guess that the long feared full-scale war between Israel and Iran had broken out. Global equities were down … Read More

Last week was a relatively quiet one for markets with global equities gaining 1.4% and 1.1% in local currency and sterling terms respectively. With the exception of Japan which was … Read More

Equities gained 1.4% last week, reversing some of their decline the previous week and leaving them up 5.7% and 4.7% in local currency and sterling terms respectively over the month. … Read More

Equities posted strong gains last week with global markets up around 4¼% in both local currency and sterling terms. The prime driver was last Monday’s news that the US and … Read More

Last week was a quiet one for markets. Global equities and bonds both ended the week little changed although gold rose 2.4% to $3340/oz. The Fed and Bank of England … Read More

Global equities have continued their recovery, rising a further 2.5% or so over the past week in both local currency and sterling terms. They have now recovered the losses triggered … Read More

The rebound in equity markets resumed last week, with global equities ending up 4.0% in local currency terms and 3.4% in sterling terms. However, markets remained very volatile with the … Read More

What a week! Market volatility – with US equities surging as much as 9.5% last Wednesday – makes rather a mockery of trotting out the usual weekly performance numbers. But … Read More