News and Analysis

APPLE: World’ largest market cap stock has its World Developers Conference next week, June 5-9. It is potentially set to launch its long-awaited AR/VR headset, in its biggest...

SUMMER: Our outlook for harder won but still positive returns remain in place as we enter the peak summer. This typically see’s lower stock market returns and volumes, with June...

TECH: Big-tech stocks have driven all before them this year. The NASDAQ is up 24% and S&P 500 10%. Whilst the equal-weight S&P 500 index and closely followed, but...

Could the reduced supply impact price movement? Altcoins are once again stealing the show, with promising network activity and regulatory changes in Hong Kong driving gains for...

BONDS: US government two- and three-year bond yields are now at quadruple their post global financial crisis average and well above the long-term average (see chart). Bonds are...

WORRY: Angst over the UK’s lagging economic performance and its weakening place in the global capital markets is running high. But capital markets are not economies, and UK assets...

COMPLACENT: The US government’s ‘checking account’ is approaching critical levels (see chart). A deal to raise the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling is needed soon. It will ultimately...

RESILIENT: The US economy has dodged long standing calls for its slowdown and a recession so far. Consumers still have pandemic savings. Corporate profits been resilient. PMI's at...

A new crypto craze is driving blockchain activity While blue chip cryptoassets Bitcoin and Ethereum drift sideways as they hold onto market-leading gains, several altcoins are...

ANOMALY: S&P 500 and Europe’ Stoxx 600 seen a very low volume May so far. With Japan’s Nikkei 225 a notable exception. This has confounded market skeptics, as it has come...