Weekly market & economic update – week ending July 25, 2014

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 Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets rose on mostly good economic data, continued solid earnings results in the US and an absence of additional bad

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Weekly market & economic update – week ending 30 May, 2014

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets mostly rose over the past week helped by relief at the conclusion of the European and Ukrainian elections, mostly

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Risk factors prompting Nikko Asset Management to cut equity exposure worsening

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Ukraine and China remain most worrisome issues The volatile geopolitical situation in Eastern Ukraine and the prospect for prolonged negative news out of China continue to weigh on Nikko Asset

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Weekly market & economic update – week ending 21 March, 2014

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The past week has seen worries about Ukraine fade but concerns the Fed will raise rates earlier than expected take centre

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Asian markets focus on geopolitical concerns

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The Ukraine-Russia crisis recently moved to the forefront of investors’ thoughts as Moscow mobilized its military power to influence developments in the autonomous Crimean peninsula. Russia’s incursions into the Ukraine

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Comment from Threadneedle Investments on the effect of the Ukraine crisis on global markets

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Commenting on the effect on global markets from the Ukraine crisis,Threadneedle Investments’ Chief Investment Officer Mark Burgess, said: “To date, the fallout from the Ukrainian crisis has been largely confined to the

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