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Fidelity15Feb21 VIDEO

Fidelity International | Fidelity Live: The Analysts

Fidelity’s Global Head of Investment Research, Ned Salter is joined by analysts Juliet Pursaill and Federico Wynne, where they discuss the sentiment shifts they're seeing across their respective secto...

Fidelity International 15th Feb 2021

Market Updates

The Week: Stock markets: a year since the crash

Even though markets have recovered since the crash in February 2020, they have held plenty of surprises for investors.

Adviser-Hub 10th Feb 2021

Market Updates

UK equity market review: “Nightmare before Christmas”

As infection rates continued to increase in areas of England, the UK Government decided to implement another series of lockdown measures lasting from 5 November to 2 December.

Adviser-Hub 5th Nov 2020

Market Updates

UK bond market review: Fears of a “double-dip” recession

Demand for UK gilts rose during October as Covid-19 infection rates continued to climb, and the UK and EU failed to progress their post-Brexit trade negotiations.

Adviser-Hub 5th Nov 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Living with uncertainty

Uncertainty has become a fact of life in recent years. The IMF’s recent assessment of the state of the global economy makes things little clearer.

Adviser-Hub 14th Oct 2020

Market Updates

Inflation – should you be scared? (and what you can do about it)

Policymakers have responded to the Covid-19 outbreak by spending: history suggests this should create inflation. Should investors be worried and how can they protect themselves?

Adviser-Hub 21st Sep 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Will a vaccine change the game?

Stock markets appear to be defying gravity. They have continued to rise in the face of some grim economic news. This begs the question of what they would do in the face of really good news: a vaccine,...

Adviser-Hub 17th Sep 2020

Market Updates

Europe market review: Three key challenges for the ECB

Amid signs that Covid-19 infection rates were on the rise once again around Europe, some localised restrictions were reimposed in August, putting a brake on economic activity.

Adviser-Hub 17th Sep 2020

Market Updates

Global update: Fears over a possible ‘second wave’

June proved to be a choppy month for investors as hopes of economic recovery were tempered by fears of a second wave of infection as instances of COVID-19 surged in parts of the US.

Adviser-Hub 6th Jul 2020

Market Updates

The Week: The resilience of Asian dividends

With UK dividends under considerable pressure, have Asian companies continued to deliver payouts to shareholders?

Adviser-Hub 17th Jun 2020

Market Updates

Emerging markets review: Clouded outlook for China’s growth

China’s National People’s Congress announced that it would not set an economic growth target for the country this year as it addresses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Adviser-Hub 10th Jun 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Does size really matter?

Size has provided little protection in the recent market rout. The appeal of large caps has historically been their defensiveness and their dividend payments, but does this still stand?

Adviser-Hub 28th May 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Does value investing still have a place in your portfolio?

It’s been a rough time for value managers. Has quantitative easing killed off value as a strategy? Or can it stage a comeback?

Adviser-Hub 21st May 2020

Market Updates

The five most important investment rules in a crisis

There is no apparent improvement in the global economy, the outlook for corporate earnings is still highly uncertain, but markets have bounced almost 20% from their lows. Those waiting until the crisi...

Adviser-Hub 20th May 2020

Market Updates

Global bond market review: A bleak outlook

Although equity markets recovered to some extent during April, investors’ appetite for risk remained weak. Bond yields picked up towards the beginning of the month amid cautious optimism.

Adviser-Hub 19th May 2020

Market Updates

US market review: US economy shrinks

Despite the news that the US economy had contracted for the first time since 2014 during the first quarter, US equity markets ended April in positive territory in April as investors began to focus on...

Adviser-Hub 18th May 2020

Market Updates

UK equity market review: UK plc on the back foot

Although UK share prices picked up slightly in April, the coronavirus continued to take a heavy social, corporate and economic toll and the UK overtook Spain to become the third-worst affected country...

Adviser-Hub 18th May 2020

Market Updates

The Week: China: the longer-term consequences of Covid-19

China may be seeing an economic bounce-back, but there may yet be economic consequences from the Covid-19 pandemic as the US sharpens its claws.

Adviser-Hub 14th May 2020

Market Updates

Lessons from a crisis

Stock market crises may not feel much fun at the time, but they can provide a handy lesson in the right way to run a portfolio.

Adviser-Hub 14th May 2020

FilAsia12May20 VIDEO

Fidelity International | Market Perspectives: Asia and Emerging Asia

Fidelity Asia Fund manager Teera Chanpongsang talks us through how Asian businesses have adapted to the pandemic, the potential for increased US-China trade tensions and his latest portfolio positioni...

Fidelity International 12th May 2020

Market Updates

Global update: Painful consequences

Following March’s collapse in share prices, global stock markets made a partial recovery in April, although most major indices still sustained double-digit losses compared with the start of the year....

Adviser-Hub 11th May 2020

FIL_COVID199MAR20 VIDEO

Fidelity International | Covid-19: The impact on Chinese consumption activity and trends

Fidelity China Consumer portfolio managers Hyomi Jie and Raymond Ma discuss the impact of Coronavirus on consumption trends in the region. They outline the near-term opportunities and potential threat...

Fidelity International 9th Mar 2020

Market Updates

Europe market review: European markets fall in February

Coronavirus continued its spread into Europe during February, with Italy the hardest hit country by a significant margin.

Adviser-Hub 4th Mar 2020

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