Author: Rupert Thompson

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…

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…

Global equities last week unwound the modest gains of the previous week, falling 1.3% and 1.7% in local currency and sterling terms respectively. This left markets up just…

Markets were quiet last week. Global equities recovered a little after four weeks of declines, rising a bit under 1% in both local currency and sterling terms, leaving…

Global equities continued their retreat last week, falling 1.7% in both local currency and sterling terms. This was their fourth consecutive weekly decline and left markets down 7.6%…

Global equities last week posted declines for the third week running, falling 1.8% in local currency terms. A recovery in the pound against a weak dollar to $1.29…