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The World In A Week – It’s a Wonderful Life (When you are appropriately diversified)
Written by Cormac Nevin. Markets were rattled last week, with the MSCI All Country World Index down -4.5% in GBP terms. What was different to the reaction vs the sell off we witnessed last year,…
Can the UK Swerve Recession?
Gross domestic product grew by 0.3% in January, according to an ONS estimate, having shrunk by 0.5% in December.
The World In A Week – Every little helps
Written by Shane Balkham. Every month starts with a surge of surveys to provide an update on the health of global economies. The current wave would suggest that global manufacturing is picking up…
The World In A Week – Minute by Minute
Written by Chris Ayton. After a strong start to the year, equity markets took a pause for breath last week with the MSCI AC World Index down -2.1% in Sterling terms and the FTSE All Share Index down…
The World In A Week – Not so cheaper by the dozen
Written by Millan Chauhan. Last week we saw several economic data releases, which included the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) print rising by 6.4% in January 2023 on a year-on-year basis which was…
Inflation dips for third consecutive month to 10.1%
On a monthly basis, CPI fell by 0.6% in January 2023.
ONS jobs market data – “discussion of inflation surged 188% among employees” – reaction
Following the announcement of the latest ONS labour market data published 14 February, finance experts and recruiters based around the UK have been outlining how this is impacting real life out there…
The World In A Week – New data needed
Written by Ilaria Massei. Almost all the major equity benchmarks ended lower in a week which delivered relatively few important economic data releases. The S&P 500 closed at -0.9% in GBP terms,…
The World In A Week – Central banks tighten… but markets get looser
Written by Cormac Nevin. Last week markets continued on their positive trajectory for the year , spurred on by a flurry of central bank interest rate decisions and press conferences from the Bank of…
Bank of England meets expectations with 0.5 percentage point hike
The Bank of England has met market expectations today (2 February) after hiking interest rates by 50 basis points to 4%.
The World In A Week – Is the rabbit out of the hat?
Written by Shane Balkham. The last full week of January was relatively quiet for markets. With the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit, many Asian markets were closed for the Chinese Lunar New Year…
The World In A Week – Are we there yet?
Written by Chris Ayton. After a robust start to the year, global equity markets paused for breath last week with the MSCI All Country World Index down -0.2% in local currency terms. Sterling’s…
