Cambridge Weekly – 8 October 2018
Bond market sell-off surprise Having written only last week that Trump’s trade wars may prove a bizarrely supportive factor towards safely unwinding overvalued bond markets, I feel as if I provoked bond markets to prove me wrong. Amongst the other news stories, bond...
Cambridge Weekly – 1 October 2018
Poor politics containing bond market risks? As September and Q3/2018 drew to a close, investors enjoyed a second consecutive week of positive returns, ending the period not only with positive returns overall, but also in an uptrend. End of an era for the Fed The era...
Cambridge Weekly – 24 September 2018
Brexit clamour vs. real market news The UK’s establishment had pinned high hopes on a Brexit breakthrough at the EU’s Salzburg (non-Brexit specific) summit. But the rest of the EU had a different agenda, so disappointment was inevitable. Judging by the vastly...
Cambridge Weekly – 14th September 2018
Financial crisis – 10 years on It was 10 years ago this week that US investment bank Lehman Brothers was allowed to default. This event marked the beginning of the ultimate escalation from a severe credit crunch to a full blown global financial sector meltdown. The...
Earnings are growing, why worry?
Chris Swanepoel, our estimable head of AIM investments, says that he doesn’t know anybody who has stopped doing their weekly shopping because of Brexit or Donald Trump.His job is to invest in companies and a lot of them are doing better than OK.Companies...
Trump’s trade wars – Hard Brexit demonstration potential?
What a week of drama and upset! For all the drama in the football, the political and global economic side were even more dramatic – at least from an investment managers’ point of view. We had suggested last week that the UK government may experience some...
It is getting hot
It was a week with two faces – strong economic data across the developed world on the one side and disruptive political rhetoric on the other. Donald Trump’s administration imposed tariffs of 25% on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports and...