Market Updates.

Yesterday’s upbeat mood in global equity markets has continued into today on signs that the spread of the coronavirus is slowing. While US deaths have unfortunately […]

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefit rose by a record 6.65m last week.  This, together with last week’s 3.31m claims, means that nearly 10m […]

As we mentioned yesterday, April started in a similar way to those horrible March days, as the Dow Jones had another near 1,000 point down day, […]

A miserable month (and first quarter of 2020) is thankfully finally over.  Global equity markets had been relatively stable for the first seven weeks of the […]

UK equities turned around after we updated you yesterday to end the day up nearly 1% at 5,563. Wall Street also ended the day positively, despite […]

Yesterday (Thursday 26 March 2020), global equity markets shrugged off the poor US jobless claims data and instead focused on benefits of the US economic stimulus […]

Market optimism was sustained for a second consecutive day yesterday (Wednesday 25 March 2020), thanks to the fact that the US Senate unanimously approved the $2tr […]

Sentiment improved yesterday as the Democrats reached an agreement with Donald Trump on a $2tr fiscal stimulus package to help the US economy (the world’s largest […]

Global equity markets fell again yesterday (Monday 23 March 2020) after Democrats again blocked Donald Trump’s proposed US stimulus plan. While this was disappointing, equity markets […]

The latest policy announcements from around the world has calmed markets and allowed some of the recent indiscriminate sell-off to be reversed.  Today (20 March 2020), […]