The Pulse In a relatively quiet month for economic and policy news, global equity prices rose, helped by corporate earnings reports in the United States and Europe that were relatively strong. The US Dollar fell 2.9% against a trade weighted basket of currencies as the “Trump Slump” continued. Over the month the lower US Dollar, […]
Market Update – June 2017
The Pulse Markets in May were heavily influenced by political developments in the major economies European equities returned 2.6% in May helped by Emmanuel Macron’s convincing win in the French Presidential election In the middle of the month equities were sold off on revelations that Donald Trump may have pressured former head of the FBI, […]
Market update – May 2017
The Pulse In April, equity markets rose helped by political developments in Europe and solid US corporate earnings reports In the United States, the technology-laden NASDAQ Composite Index rose to all time highs, boosted by strong earnings results from the major technology companies US consumer and business sentiment surveys fell back from the recent highs […]
Market update – April 2017
The pulse Click to read the full update In March, global equity markets were quite mixed. US shares and bonds traded sideways as Donald Trump’s promise to repeal of the Affordable Care Act failed to gain congressional support, which has called into question whether his other policies, such as tax reform, can also be approved. […]
Market update – March 2017
The Pulse In February, global equity markets continued to trend higher boosted by optimism about US growth and reasonably good economic and corporate earnings data. In the United States, the Standard & Poor’s 500 equity index rose 4.0% over the month pushing its 12-month return to 25%. US business sentiment indicators rose further with small […]