Market Commentary

Introduction 2020 has been a year like no other, and yet – as we will see below – the majority…

Was the end of November a time to celebrate? All the stock markets we cover made significant gains in the…

The end of October brought plenty of bad news for Western economies as scientists stood in front of graphs and…

September was a difficult month for world stock markets. It was one of those rare months when none of the…

August used to be known as the ‘silly season’ – a phrase coined by the Times in 1861 to describe…

Introduction  If there was one word that characterised July, it was tension. Tension between Beijing and Hong Kong, tension between…

Looking back to the start of last month, June began optimistically as the Space X astronauts reached the International Space…

Hello, and welcome to our latest client update at the end of what has been an eventful week. In the…

Introduction  For the second month in a row, we went back to the previous month’s Commentary before we wrote a…

Introduction  Right now, even a week seems a long time in the news agenda. Remembering the end of March, when…

Introduction In March, the coronavirus outbreak seemed to steal all the headlines, giving us almost hourly updates as it transformed…

China grabbed the headlines again in January, but this time not for trade. On 31st December, the Chinese authorities had…