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Global Market Overview The start to 2019 has been much more positive for investors than the end of 2018. Global equities made good gains in January, recovering some of the ground lost in the fourth quarter of last year. The key reason for this seems to have been a reversal in the US Federal Reserve’s […]

Global Market Overview Any hopes of a so-called Santa rally were short-lived in December with all major markets posting losses for the month. Despite November’s brief respite, the fourth quarter turned out to be the worst in the last seven years. Investors have lost confidence against a backdrop of rising US central bank interest rates, […]

Global Market Overview After the trauma of October, there was some respite in November although markets remain skittish and only really stabilised towards the end of the month when a meeting between President Xi and President Trump at the G20 indicated a potentially more positive outcome to trade talks between the US and China. There […]

Global Market Overview October proved to be a torrid month in global equity markets with the most significant monthly declines we have seen for six years. The MSCI World index fell 6.8% over the month. Many markets in local currency terms have come close to correction territory this year, defined as a fall of 10% […]

Global Market Overview Asset classes produced mixed returns in September with most equity market eking out positive returns whilst government bond prices declined. The MSCI World index rose a modest 0.23% with the UK, US and Japan providing positive returns which were offset by Europe and Emerging Markets where investor sentiment continues to be negative. […]