Market Insights Global Market Overview During October financial markets were fairly unrewarding for investors, with equities, in particular, coming under pressure towards the latter stages of the month. Fixed income...
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Global Market Overview Summary Global markets, as represented by MSCI All-Country World Index, or ACWI, were up 6.1% in USD for August led by Japan (catch-up performance after having lagged...
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Global Market Overview Stocks continued their march higher in July, adding a fourth consecutive monthly gain. Despite renewed COVID-19 concerns, rising tensions with China , and signs of stalling economic...
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Global Market Overview The rebound in equity markets extended into May. A cross-sectional review of asset class returns shows that asset prices have moved on from pricing in reflation to...
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Global Market Overview After the severe shock in March, markets rebounded strongly in April. COVID-19 continued to spread globally, but some countries saw daily new infection rates start to fall...
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Global Market Overview – 1st Quarter 2020 The first quarter of 2020 has been an unprecedented period in financial market history across numerous dimensions: The U.S. stock market fell into...
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Global Market Overview In February, the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak replaced trade as the main focus for the markets. Fears of near-term negative effects on Chinese and global growth, together with...
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Grim warnings on Tuesday 25 February from public health officials about the spread of the coronavirus coincided with new cases appearing across Europe, sparking a sell-off in markets and stirring new worries...
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Global Market Overview Global indices started the year on a very strong footing, with almost all major equity indices delivering positive gains in the first three weeks of the year....
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Global Market Overview Equities continued to climb the wall of worry in November – a relatively consistent feature of markets in 2019, despite the multitude of geopolitical risks that investors...
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