• 4th July 2022

A WEEK IN FINANCIAL MARKETS

In the UK, the FTSE 100 fell almost 2% on Thursday to close out its worst month since the early days of the Covid pandemic with the Index falling more...
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  • 29th June 2022

A WEEK IN FINANCIAL MARKETS

Equity markets ended last week on a positive note, with rises across the board on Friday, including the FTSE All-Share and Euro STOXX 600 which were b...
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FINANCIAL WEEK IN A GLANCE: KEY TRENDS

A stock bounce reversed in Asia on Wednesday, commodities sank and the Dollar climbed amid ever-louder warnings that Federal Reserve monetary tighteni...
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  • 14th June 2022

FINANCIAL WEEK IN A GLANCE: KEY TRENDS

Markets closed down significantly on Friday and have started this week poorly. US stocks entered a bear market, Treasury yields spiked to levels not s...
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  • 8th June 2022

What is a bear market and why it matters?

Recently the term “bear market” appear more and more in conversation. But what does it mean?  Bears and bulls are common animal metaphors used in...
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  • 24th May 2022

FINANCIAL WEEK IN A GLANCE: are there any positives?

A late-day rally lifted US stocks on Friday, after another week-long sell-off sent the S&P 500 briefly into bear market territory. The broad meas...
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  • 17th May 2022

FINANCIAL WEEK IN A GLANCE

April was a tough month for markets, as they struggled to digest the toxic mix of still-rising inflation and lower growth, along with a helping of wea...
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Financial week in a glance: key trends

US stocks posted a fifth straight losing week, their longest streak of declines in more than a decade, after a strong jobs report on Friday added fuel...
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Financial week in a glance: what’s been trending

In the international news Tesla and SpaceX CEO, billionaire Elon Musk sold about $8.5bn of Tesla stock after announcing he will buy Twitter for $44bn,...
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