13th July 2020
As you can see from the accompanying table, most of the major equity markets ended a relatively quiet week with a small gain.
6th July 2020
The majority of global equity markets ended the week strongly higher. However, this does hide some choppy intra-day moves as the tug-of-war between an economic recovery versus a rise in coronavirus cases yo-yoed equity markets.
29th June 2020
The past week has been another where the day-to-day index moves have been dizzying, because, as we have previously said, equity markets hate uncertainty (and as the coronavirus outbreak is a big uncertainty), they are currently trading on every news headline.
22nd June 2020
Global equity markets rose this week on the back of more evidence that the global economy is improving.
15th June 2020
As Marie Curie once said “I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy”, and that is also true for investing as equity markets have this week reminded us that the path for global equities is never smooth or easy
8th June 2020
Global equity markets rose strongly over the week after strong US employment data indicated, as we have been forecasting, that the coronavirus outbreak is a transient issue and as a result the global recovery will be V-shaped.