The Cambridge Weekly –20th May 2024

Pluses and minuses It has been a decent week for investors, with global stocks up around 1% from last Monday. British and European equities finished virtually flat, with the US and China slightly up. The gain for US stocks was not outsized, but it was enough to take...

The Cambridge Weekly –13th May 2024

A blooming May for the UK Stocks and bonds have had a good week again, revelling in the after-effects of the previous week’s US Federal Reserve meeting, and signals of a tepid US jobs market in the April employment report. Hong Kong stocks did particularly well, after...

The Cambridge Weekly –7th May 2024

Still sticking to the plan Equity and bond markets have had a reasonably good week, with policy makers helping to calm nerves. Geopolitical concerns retreated further; the US and Saudi Arabia are close to a bilateral agreement which may well include the formal...