Soft landing story facing trade barriers
A ‘soft landing’ for the global economy, with inflation broadly tamed while avoiding a recession, remains the dominant narrative in asset markets,...
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Green shoots for Europe stock funds
With the Bank of England and the European Central Bank widely expected to follow the example of their Swedish and Swiss counterparts, and start...
Living through interesting times
Weaker US job creation numbers and the first interest rate cut by Sweden’s central bank since 2016 gave investor risk appetite a modest boost during...
Sell in May and go away until 2025?
The final week of April ended with US markets closing the books on their worst month since September, the price of Bitcoin down some 17% from its...
Hoped-for US rate cuts morph into fear of another hike
Investors took a cautious approach to most asset classes during the third week of April, with lackluster inflows or modest outflows being the norm...
The cruelest month shows its colors
April is known for its showers, warming trends and sudden changes in climate. This April, it has been missiles and attack drones that made up the...
Investors feel the squeeze in early April
There were some unwelcome additions to the “higher for longer” list during the first week of April as geopolitical risks and energy prices joined US...
America’s economic strength weighs on pivot projections
Although Switzerland’s central bank kicked off its latest easing cycle in late March, the second quarter started with investors digesting an...
Rate optimism shapes run-up to Easter
Investors spent the week leading into the Easter holidays digesting the latest round of central bank policy meetings. Their conclusions seem to have...
BOJ closes the book on negative rates
Central banks were again front and center during the third week of March. Between March 18-21, the US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank...
Rising tide doesn’t lift SRI/ESG Funds
Record-setting flows into US Equity Funds ahead of the first “quadruple witching” of 2024 for futures and options contracts and February’s inflation...
Investors take stock in early March
Chase old market catalysts or wait for new ones? With the latest corporate earnings season winding down, China’s leadership laying out (some)...
What price peace and interest rate cuts?
The final week of February was marked by the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, key US, European and Japanese equity indexes...
For equity investors, plenty of sunlit uplands
Between Feb. 15 and 22, Japan, Europe and the US saw benchmark equity indexes hit fresh record highs while China’s CSI 300 climbed to a level last...
Focus shifts to US as China goes on holiday
With millions of Chinese workers downing tools for the Lunar New Year holiday and the country’s stock market going into that break on the back of...