Oil

  • Victors emerging in the oil price war

    Victors emerging in the oil price war

    Oil prices have been central to market discussion in the past six months, but is the current weakness a short or long-term correction?

  • The five biggest risks to your portfolio

    The five biggest risks to your portfolio

    Equity investors have by and large emerged unscathed from the first quarter, still bonds and commodities have suffered, and there are bigger risks facing portfolios going in to Q2.

  • Have European equities run their race already

    Have European equities run their race already

    As money floods into European equities funds the markets seem to be playing ball.

  • FTSE deep into the red on Greece worries

    FTSE deep into the red on Greece worries

    The FTSE 100 index has fallen sharply this morning as investors fretted over the implications of a rebound in the price of crude oil and the lack of progress in Greeces talks with its creditors.

  • Emerging markets rebalancing

    Emerging markets rebalancing

    Falling oil prices and the adoption of reform agendas means Asia could soon account for three-quarters of the MSCII Emerging Markets Index, said Catherine Yeung, investment director for Asia ex-Japan equities at Fidelity Investments.

  • Millenials are in for an economic rollercoaster

    Millenials are in for an economic rollercoaster

    Bill Smead, chief investment officer at Smead Capital Management, discusses why the so-called Millenial generation are in for a economic rollercoaster.

  • Counterpoint Bill Smead

    Counterpoint Bill Smead

    Bill Smead, chief investment officer at Smead Capital Management, discusses why the so-called Millenial generation are in for a economic rollercoaster.

  • US consumption will push Mexican growth

    US consumption will push Mexican growth

    Rising US consumption will boost the Mexican manufacturing sector and subsequent wider economic growth, according to the manager of BlackRock’s Latin American Trust.

  • Will Saudi Arabia knock investors off wall

    Will Saudi Arabia knock investors off wall

    Despite the proverbial wall of worries seeming as high and treacherous as it ever has been, investors continue to climb it with safety equipment of questionable quality.

  • Investec vs JPM Natural Resources

    Investec vs JPM Natural Resources

    Commodities funds have been anything but the natural choice for resourceful wealth managers of late, but if you do believe that things are about to change then there are two stand-out candidates.

  • Gold and oil ETPs seeing unusual flow level

    Gold and oil ETPs seeing unusual flow level

    Gold and oil ETPs are seeing the longest stretch of consecutive positive flows since October 2012 with $35bn of new money coming in last week, according to ETF Securities.

  • Commodities back on the investor table

    Commodities back on the investor table

    According to Threadneedles Nicolas Robin improving developed markets and structural shifts mean commodities are increasingly back on investors radar screens.