Market Update | Week 20
19th May 2025
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…
Author: Rupert Thompson
Market Update | Week 20
19th May 2025
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Market Update | Week 19
12th May 2025
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…
Market Update | Week 18
6th May 2025
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…
Market Update | Week 17
28th April 2025
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…
Market Update | Week 15
14th April 2025
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…
Market Update | Week 14
7th April 2025
Liberation day, far from heralding a new era of US prosperity, has provoked market panic. Global equities lost around 8% in both local currency and sterling terms last…