Market Updates.

“The only way is up” is a good theme to characterise the start of the week.

NASA released images from its James Webb Space Telescope this week, one of which is a crystal-clear picture which is said to contain the “deepest, most […]

Following on from last week’s bounce, many key markets kept up their positive momentum into this week. China cut its quarantine requirements for travellers, with its […]

Markets have had a strong to start to the week. Sentiment was helped after Biden spoke early in the week to reiterate that a US recession […]

It was initially a difficult start to the week, driven in part by Friday’s higher than expected US CPI reading, which we discussed last week. However, […]

Following a long weekend of jubilation here in the UK, markets have broadly been flat. On Monday, we saw a vote of confidence in the UK […]

Hannah Owen, Portfolio Specialist, and our Fund Managers Peter Quayle and Jonathan Wiseman discuss inflation.

We’ve had some detail from China this week on plans in place to loosen the lockdowns in Shanghai: shops will begin to open this week, further restrictions will ease towards the end of the week, public transport will start back up and further normality will return from 1st June.

The big news to start the week was the result of the French Presidential run-off election on Sunday. Sitting President Emanuel Macron held off his far-right opposition leader, Marine Le Pen

It has been a quiet week, with few market moving headlines, which isn’t a bad thing after a tumultuous month. Markets have now largely made up lost ground after the chasm created in the last 5 weeks.