Investment Updates

How low can the pound go?
The pound has seen further weakness, maintaining a pattern seen for most of the year. Can it fall further?

Corporate earnings: the next problem for investors?
Corporate earnings held up reasonably well in the second quarter, but there are increasing jitters about their direction from here. Could earnings weakness prompt markets to lurch lower?

Equity markets rebound in July
Despite an increasingly clouded economic backdrop, share prices around the world generally rose during July. Investor sentiment was buoyed by encouraging US earnings reports and by hopes that central banks might moderate their tightening activity in order to avoid undermining economic growth.

The Week: In a crisis, diversification matters more than ever
The first six months of 2022 may have seen all asset classes sell off, but diversification has still helped preserve investors’ returns.

Bargain-hunting in bonds
After a lengthy period when bonds looked unappealing, current valuations should alert investors.

Inflation remains a menace
There was another round of startling inflation statistics this week, with UK CPI reaching its highest point since 1982.

UK rates hit 13-year high
Surging inflation and slowing economic growth continue to create a headache for the Bank of England (BoE).

Interest rates rise around the world
Markets were choppy during May as investors’ ongoing preoccupation over inflation was compounded by a raft of interest rate increases.

The state of markets: is it over yet?
This has been a tough period in markets. However, it is difficult to see a reversal in fortunes in the short-term.

The China problem
China’s economic weakness has spooked markets, but is its weakness likely to be short or long term?
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