Author: Rupert Thompson

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…