Author: Rupert Thompson

Equity markets retreated a little further last week, with the US falling a sizeable 2.3% on Wednesday before recovering some of these losses on Friday. Global equities ended…

Equity markets retreated last week, following their strong run of late, with global equities down 2.0% in local currency terms and 1.5% in sterling terms. Bonds, by contrast,…

Global equities saw further gains last week, rising 1.1% in local currency terms. However, a strengthening in the pound against a weaker dollar to just under $1.30, the…

Politics were very much centre stage last week. But as is usually the case for markets at least, the economics turned out to be more important. Nevertheless, it…

The UK Election If you listened to nothing but the rhetoric, you would think economic policy will be very different going forward under a Labour or Conservative government….

Global equities last week fell a modest 0.6% or so in both sterling and local currency terms. This still left markets up a healthy 2.3% and 3.7% respectively…