Weekly Market Summary.

The media may be obsessed with Brexit, but the market was more interested in this week’s Fed monetary policy meeting and progress on US/China trade talks. […]

Most global equity markets took a breather after recent gains and ended the week virtually unchanged. Monday’s (21 January 2019) Chinese Q4 GDP slowed to a […]

Boy, what a week we have had! Who says politics is boring? Obviously Brexit has taken centre stage, but rather than regurgitate the news flow, it […]

Despite political impasses in the US and UK, equity markets had another good week, continuing their positive start to the year. Whilst it has been an […]

The past week was a short one for markets, seeing the New Year ushered in and the majority of markets closed the week significantly higher. Whilst […]

There were positive noises on the outlook for US-China trade talks after China lowered tariffs on imported American cars from 40% to 15%. Sentiment was also […]

Although Donald Trump described last Saturday’s (1 December 2018) meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, as a “BIG leap forward” after they agreed a 90 […]

Trade and the Fed remained front and centre this week. I appreciate that many clients are getting bored with me going on and on about US […]

Following Mike Pence’s (the US Vice President) comments at last weekend’s APEC summit, talk of a new cold trade war between the US and China dominated […]

Brexit obviously took centre stage this week and while the media’s portrayal of all the Brexit fandango has been that Theresa May’s draft deal was ‘dead […]