From sticks to hurdles
After a furious start to 2023, the stock market has continued to perform well in recent weeks. Major US technology companies continued their upward trend, in some cases gaining more than 30 percent since the beginning of the year. The most recent reporting season...
End to interest rate hikes in sight?
Jerome Powell has stayed the course. Despite the persistent turbulence within the U.S. banking sector, the U.S. Federal Reserve implemented its tenth consecutive interest rate hike this week. Market participants, who had proclaimed an immediate change of course in...
Simplicity – the basis of successful investments
The demise of the U.S. Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank has brought back memories of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. Collapsing stock prices, crate-dragging Lehman bankers and government officials pleading for prudence dominated the news back then. And...
No reason for euphoria
After a historically poor year in 2022, capital markets got off to a furious start in 2023 with the best January performance of the EURO STOXX 50 since its launch in 1987. There were a number of reasons for the rally: The reopening of the Chinese economy after a...
