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Analysis & Opinion

The Week: It’s the debt, stupid

Fund managers will often say that politics has little influence on financial markets, but with soaring debt levels, politics may matter more than usual. 

Adviser-Hub 11th Jul 2024

Market Updates

Global updates: Fed holds steady for another month

In a landmark year – notable for the sheer number of elections around the world – share prices in Europe were knocked during June by French President Emmanuel Macron’s surprise an...

Adviser-Hub 3rd Jul 2024

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Ooh la la: trouble across the Channel

Macron’s ill-advised decision to call a snap election has plunged French politics – and its financial markets – into turmoil. 

Adviser-Hub 3rd Jul 2024

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Europe: political uncertainty outweighs rate cuts

European markets had been set to accelerate, but political tensions may halt their progress. 

Adviser-Hub 13th Jun 2024

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: Tech or no tech in 2024?

Can big tech keep its crown in the year ahead? The recent rally may have started markets down a different path.

Adviser-Hub 3rd Jan 2024

Market Updates

Global updates: ECB raise rates again

The annualised rate of US consumer price inflation subsided from 4% in May to 3% in June, fuelling hopes that the Fed might be approaching the end of its tightening cycle.

Adviser-Hub 18th Aug 2023

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: An optimistic start to 2022

Markets have opened with a flourish – dismissing the new variant and inflationary pressures: should investors follow this new-found optimism?

Adviser-Hub 6th Jan 2022

Analysis & Opinion

The Week: What does a normalising recovery mean for investors?

As economic recovery starts to slow into a more normal pattern, is it bad news for over-inflated markets?

Adviser-Hub 26th Aug 2021

Market Updates

Global update: Investors rattled by Delta spread

Mounting inflationary pressures and the continued spread of the Delta coronavirus variant raised fresh questions over the outlook for economic recovery.

Adviser-Hub 6th Aug 2021

Market Updates

Europe market review: Economic confidence improves in Europe

Former President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi took the helm of Italy’s government during February.

Adviser-Hub 22nd Mar 2021

Market Updates

The Week: Will listings shake-up draw businesses to the UK?

The Hill Review recommends changes to the UK listing rules. It may help shake off the fuddy-duddy reputation of UK markets.

Adviser-Hub 3rd Mar 2021

Market Updates

Europe market review: Outlook for Europe remains subdued

Europe was blighted by a fresh wave of lockdown measures during January in response to rising Covid-19 infection rates. Economic activity in the eurozone is unlikely to recover to pre-pandemic levels...

Adviser-Hub 16th Feb 2021

Market Updates

UK equity income market review: UK dividends fall sharply in Q2

UK investors suffered some of the most severe dividend cuts in the world during the second quarter.

Adviser-Hub 16th Sep 2020

Market Updates

The Week: Grim reading on UK data

The UK’s economic output slumped in the second quarter – and the future’s not looking too bright either.

Adviser-Hub 12th Aug 2020

Market Updates

Europe market review: European economies shrink in Q1

European equity markets generally rebounded in April after sustaining steep falls in March.

Adviser-Hub 19th May 2020

Market Updates

Europe market review: ECB launches review of its monetary policy strategy

The eurozone’s economy expanded by only 0.1% during the fourth quarter of 2019.

Adviser-Hub 12th Feb 2020

Market Updates

Global bond market review: Investors eye riskier assets in December

A mood of tentative optimism blunted the attractions of government bonds during December.

Adviser-Hub 15th Jan 2020

Market Updates

Global bond market review: Central banks start to ease

Bond yields continued their decline into June: prices rose as several central banks loosened their monetary policy stance.

Adviser-Hub 10th Jul 2019

Market Updates

What next for Brexit?

After months of political wrangling over Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May announced that she would stand down as leader of the Conservative Party.

Adviser-Hub 28th May 2019

Market Updates

Europe market review: Eurozone stages a rally

The eurozone’s economy rebounded during the first three months of 2019, posting quarter-on-quarter growth of 0.4%. Italy emerged from recession, supported by export activity.

Adviser-Hub 14th May 2019

Market Updates

Europe market review: “No breakthrough in sight”

Further “robust but constructive” Brexit talk between Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker yielded no change in February.

Adviser-Hub 6th Mar 2019

Market Updates

The Week: Is disappointing Eurozone economic data a one-off?

Slowing growth, weak retail sales, declining industrial production. No, it’s not the UK, but the Eurozone, which, until recently was the darling of the global economy.

Adviser-Hub 10th May 2018

Market Updates

Europe market review: Post-Brexit future of Northern Ireland remains in doubt

February 2018 European share prices generally fell in February, undermined by speculation that major central banks may be poised to tighten monetary policy more quickly than previously anticipated....

Adviser-Hub 14th Mar 2018

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Europe market review: Observations on the French election

Observations on the French election Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen have won the first round of voting in the French presidential election and will face each other in the final round on May 7. Th...

Adviser-Hub 2nd May 2017

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