Global updates: A volatile start to 2026
Geopolitics returned to the spotlight in January, and the price of gold climbed above US$5,000 per ounce for the first time, driven up by intensifying concerns over the geopolitical and financial o...
Adviser-Hub 11th Feb 2026
Global updates: Double-digit gains in 2025
Despite a tumultuous year, global markets ended 2025 strongly, with many major indices notching up double-digit gains over the year in the face of geopolitical instability and trade tensions.
Adviser-Hub 9th Jan 2026
Global updates: Tech pullback
Despite continuing concerns over an increasingly frothy US technology sector, the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index (DJIA) breached 48,000 points during November for the first time.
Adviser-Hub 10th Dec 2025
Global updates: Blowing bubbles?
Speculation over the possibility that the US stock market is in an AI-fuelled bubble continued during October.
Adviser-Hub 7th Nov 2025
Global updates: “No risk-free paths”
Interest rates took centre stage in September as the US Federal Reserve (Fed) finally delivered a much-anticipated cut of 25 basis points.
Adviser-Hub 9th Oct 2025
Global updates: US rate cut looms
Hopes of a September interest rate cut in the US provided a boost for global equity markets.
Adviser-Hub 11th Sep 2025
Global updates: Is a bubble brewing?
US markets were boosted in July by better-than-expected corporate earnings for the second quarter. In particular, strong earnings from the technology sector – including Microsoft – drov...
Adviser-Hub 11th Aug 2025
Global updates: Global uncertainties
Geopolitical events took a new turn in June as Iran and Israel engaged in a short but intense ‘12-day war’ that also included a US military attack on three Iranian nuclear facilities Adviser-Hub 8th Jul 2025
Geopolitical events took a new turn in June as Iran and Israel engaged in a short but intense ‘12-day war’ that also included a US military attack on three Iranian nuclear facilities
Adviser-Hub 8th Jul 2025
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