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Refuelling pause in markets
29 August 2025Markets have had another relatively quiet week. The news, on the other hand, was full of debt panic and more Trump destabilisation. As noted in the past few weeks, investors seem to have become desensitised to these events. The...
Market leaders taking late summer break
22 August 2025The Bloomberg World stock market index has gained 0.5% for the week as we write, bond prices are mixed (UK yields are up). Underneath that, US large cap stocks did less well, while China and the UK have risen, to the point where...
The slowdown never comes
15 August 2025The good times keep coming for global stocks. This week, markets’ optimism was backed up by a fundamentally bullish outlook – the continued improvement of corporate earnings expectations in almost all major markets. And, with...
Busy going nowhere
4 August 2025This has been one of the busiest weeks for potentially market moving information in a long time. We’ll start with market moves and see what that tells us about the way in which the information has added up, and what are currently...
The Meme Generation
25 July 2025This week has had lots of quite important information but no single aspect has dominated. Equity markets are higher again, bond yields are stable and companies tell us that, on balance, things are difficult but okay. US retail...
Higher and higher
18 July 2025Markets keep rising steadily and gently, on an incoming tide of liquidity. Investors appear to have plenty of cash and are happy to deploy it into risk assets, largely thanks to expectations of interest rate cuts. Both intraday...