Market sentiment pulls away from the brink as fear factors subside
Market sentiment hit a renewed low in the second week of February 2016, matching the extreme bearishness in mid-January 2016. […]
Market sentiment hit a renewed low in the second week of February 2016, matching the extreme bearishness in mid-January 2016. […]
Despite signs of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) slowing down the process of capital account liberalisation (as I argued […]
Just two months after starting a policy tightening cycle in December, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) finds itself in […]
Equity low-volatility strategies have largely outperformed* their market capitalisation benchmarks in the turbulent times for stock markets since the start […]
Investors are starting to question whether central banks are out of monetary ammunition. They are increasingly sceptical that another round […]
The January 2016 FOMC minutes portray a Committee wrestling with a more uncertain economic and policy outlook due to tighter […]
Dismal risk asset performance in recent weeks has some investors questioning whether weakening global growth expectations warrant lower asset prices […]
Uber has become one symbol of the way new technologies can rapidly transform a long established business, creating simultaneously chaos […]
In 2016, we intend (yes, it’s another New Year’s resolution) to identify each month a ‘buzzword’ that reflects a […]
The battalions assailing financial markets in 2016 have received reinforcements over the last few weeks. To the concerns about the […]
This article on the recent turmoil in financial markets was written on 5 February 2016 in New York City. […]
This article was written on 20/01/2016. The steep fall in global markets since the start of 2016 has come […]
Once MSCI’s two-phase inclusion of 14 US-listed Chinese companies into its China and emerging market (EM) indices is completed […]
The current collapse in crude oil prices is unparalleled in recent history. Risks at current price levels appear to be […]
After a volatile start to 2016 for global financial markets, the focus for the last week of January was on […]
A report published by the French equivalent of the UK’s Central Advisory Committee on Pensions and Compensation notes […]
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) surprised financial markets on 28 January 2016 by announcing the imposition of negative interest rates. […]
Away from the media frenzy surrounding headline international events such as the COP21 global warming conference, the rise of new […]