Amit Parmar looks at the recent surge in oil price and its impact on UK equity income investors.
Karen Ward, Chief Market Strategist for EMEA, shares her views on the key themes for the second quarter of 2018.
The Brexit negotiations have reached an important milestone with both sides agreeing to a period of transition between the UK formally leaving the EU in March 2019 and the new relationship coming in to force in January 2021. This has lifted sterling and UK interest rate expectations. Both could get a further boost if the next ambition is met - an agreement on the heads of terms of the final deal.
The euro’s upward march against the US dollar has been on hiatus since the end of January. How do the arguments for the two currencies stack up, and where might they go from here?
Over the past week financial markets have reacted negatively to the President’s announcement of tariffs on steel and aluminum, mainly due to fears of a trade war that could reduce global trade. In this note, we address a number of key questions that investors have been asking us about this issue.
The European Central Bank (ECB) met recently and kept policy unchanged.
William Meadon explains how investment trusts can provide investors with a level of income certainty.
After fifteen months of equity markets grinding steadily higher, volatility returned abruptly at the beginning of February.