Traditional safe haven investments such as gold, US Treasuries and the Japanese yen were all boosted by growing worries about the global geopolitical climate this week. The yield on the 10–year Treasury fell to 2.3%…

Thursday saw US President Donald Trump welcome his Chinese equivalent, President Xi Jinping. It was the first time the two have met face to face: a blind date, if you like, albeit one with global…

A sharp sell-off for US financial stocks helped drive the S&P 500 index down more than one per cent on Tuesday – its worst one-day performance since before Donald Trump’s election victory in November. That…

This week, the major events influencing global financial markets were not so much tales of the unexpected as stories of the entirely predictable. After a year of shocks and political upheaval, investors were reassured by…

For someone who goes under the nickname “Spreadsheet Phil”, UK Chancellor Philip Hammond’s first Budget was surprisingly upbeat. Containing only 28 measures compared to 77 within George Osborne’s previous Spring Budget, it was a noticeably…

By Cherry Reynard. Anti-globalisation sentiment threatens to dent global trade Emerging markets have been a beneficiary of globalisation and therefore look vulnerable Reversing the tide of globalisation will be extremely difficult and emerging markets may…

Yesterday saw Snapchat go public in the largest float since Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba in 2014. The company’s young founders – one of whom is a Stanford drop-out – become the latest tech multi-billionaires. In…

For most of February, the UK has been in the heady position of boasting the world’s fastest growing major advanced economy. First estimates from the Office for National Statistics, published at the back end of…

Inflation is back. Figures released this week on both sides of the Atlantic painted a picture of rising prices – and the possibility of an end to the days of ultra-low price increases. The UK’s…