Equity markets opened lower yesterday after Donald Trump reignited tensions with China. Obviously, the prospect of mixing the negative theme from 2018/19 (the US/China trade war), […]

After initially trading sideways yesterday morning (30 April 2020), the FTSE-100 rapidly started to lose altitude mid-morning as economic data and company results continued to paint […]

Global equity markets brushed aside US Q1 GDP data and the Fed’s downbeat economic assessment and instead focused on a potential new drug which helped coronavirus […]

To regular readers this week’s commentary is starting to look like a broken record, as equity markets continue to look past the poor company earnings reports […]

Global equity markets started the week with a positive tone thanks to growing optimism that a number of major economies and US states will fully reopen […]

US equity markets rose sharply first thing yesterday – and at one point the Dow Jones was up over 400 points.  This helped to lift the […]

Global equity markets yesterday (Wednesday 22 April 2020) clawed back a large proportion of Tuesday’s oil-induced losses. In the UK, the FTSE-100 yesterday rose 129.6 points, […]

It was another volatile day for equity markets yesterday with oil front and centre, given its continuing collapse. In the UK, the FTSE-100 ended the day […]

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) fell below $0 last night for the first time ever – and at one point WTI traded at -$40 (yes, negative $40), […]

US data was again the focus of global equity markets yesterday with the weekly US jobless claims numbers.  Unfortunately, claims surged again last week by 5.2m […]