The stand-off between US president Donald Trump and North Korea has led to a spike in gold and silver prices, with financial markets adopting a safety first attitude in the immediate aftermath of escalating tensions.
China was the best performing country last month, while momentum beat other factors like quality, MSCI has reported.
This Wednesday (9 August) marks 10 years since the global financial crisis began, the morning BNP Paribas finally halted redemptions from funds containing now-infamous CDO instruments. We take a look at six sectors to see where you would have been best placed to invest in the decade that followed.
With the exception of funds tracking the US and UK mid caps, no passive funds have been able to generate first or second quartile performance in their respective sectors over the past 10 years, according to research from Chase de Vere.
The US equities rally has been given a fresh boost this year by continuing earnings upgrades and a weakening dollar, but Europe’s investors are not buying it.
Volatility in US equity markets plummeted to its lowest level in almost 50 years on Monday.
The US could be on track to hike interest rates by the end of the year after fresh employment data revealed a steady picture for wages and jobs.
Frontier market equities saw the largest net inflows for a very long time in June, suggesting the interest in developing economies’ stock markets is broadening.
The UK interest rate will remain at historic lows of 0.25%, the Bank of England confirmed on Thursday afternoon.
The financial health of FTSE 100 companies is at “significant risk” from the escalating liabilities of their pension schemes, a report has found.
A policy reversal at the Bank of England is imminent and could prompt it to sell its £10bn hoard of corporate bonds back to the market, M&G’s Richard Woolnough has said.
Most active US equity funds struggle to ever outperform their benchmark, but this year the secret to outperformance has been surprisingly straightforward.
