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Market correction turns into pothole Last week started with some of the worst stock market losses in nearly two years – prompted by recession fears and Japanese liquidity problems – but ended with most of those losses recovered. Volatility spiked across most...

Central bank week Another nervy week for investors: a slew of interest rate decisions, weak US employment data and disappointing Q2 earnings reports from US tech firms (including nasty results from Intel, which laid off 15,000 employees. On the central bank front,...

Don’t fear the rebalance The rough patch for global stocks continues – yet again concentrated in the frothy US mega-caps. Smaller caps continue to be a bright spot, but in aggregate these gains are being outweighed by large-cap losses. The “Magnificent 7”...

Shock, rotation, growth? An astounding week, that started with an attempted assassination of Donald Trump, ended with the largest global IT outage in history. As a result, markets now assume Trump will be president – and have priced in the tax cut...

Lower inflation, less profits? Global stocks fell into the latter part of the week – thanks to a sell-off for US mega-caps. Smaller caps and other regions outperformed, in a reversal of the year’s trend so far. UK stocks did well, with...