Weekly markets 06 07 20260:00/563.19854875283441× Wall Street's earnings optimism is starting to look like a bubble this week — Bloomberg data has S&P 500 profit growth forecast at 25% for the coming year, but Capital Economics and UBS both warn AI-related capex assumptions
Weekly markets 29 06 20260:00/449.188571428571441× Sovereign wealth funds are quietly ditching public equities for private markets this week — Invesco's survey of 90 funds worth $17.2tn found 17% planning to cut listed equities while up to 35% pile into private equity, credit and infrastructure, chasing
Weekly markets 22 06 20260:00/466.67319727891161× Keir Starmer has resigned as Prime Minister, with Andy Burnham stepping in after winning the Makerfield by-election. The bond market took the news well, with yields on 2, 5 and 30-year gilts all ticking down. In the US, SpaceX has
Weekly marker 15 06 20260:00/416.12335600907031× Central banks just diverged for the first time since the Iran war began — the ECB and BOJ hiked 25 basis points, while the Fed and BOE held steady as Kevin Warsh settles into the chair. The split reflects how differently the Eurozone,
Weekly markets 08 06 20260:00/529.04199546485261× The dollar's dominance is under scrutiny — gold has displaced it as the world's top reserve asset according to a new ECB report, while non-bank institutions now absorb more Treasury issuance than central banks, bringing higher rollover risk
Weekly markets 01 06 20260:00/470.15619047619051× Wall Street is brushing off AI bubble fears — the S&P 500 hit record highs 11 times in May, the Nasdaq is up 16%, and Sandisk alone is up 600% on the year. Bulls point to cash-generating companies and strong
Weekly markets 25 05 20260:00/442.66376417233561× UK gilts post their best week in two and a half years — 10-year yields fall to 4.9% after Labour leadership frontrunner Andy Burnham pledged to stick to the government's borrowing limits, calming a bond market that had been
Weekly markets 18 05 20260:00/505.311201814058961× Inflation from the Iran war is now unmistakeable — US CPI at its fastest since 2023, UK 30-year gilts at their highest since 1998, and commodity ETFs seeing their biggest daily inflow since Ukraine. The ECB is expected to hike twice more
Weekly markets 11 05 20260:00/627.37850340136051× Foreign investors are dumping Indian stocks at the fastest pace on record — $21bn pulled out since February, with $13bn in March alone — as the war in Iran sends energy costs soaring and the rupee to historic lows. India relies on the Strait
Weekly markets 04 05 20260:00/552.86566893424041× Japan’s finance ministry takes its most dramatic step in years this week — spending an estimated $30bn to defend the Yen during Golden Week, when thin liquidity makes currency moves land harder. We unpack why the war in Iran has made the
Weekly markets 27 04 20260:00/666.8361× All four major central banks — the Fed, ECB, Bank of England, and Bank of Japan — hold rates this week, and we ask whether the muted market reaction to the Iran war signals something structural: that technology and services have displaced fossil fuels
Weekly Markets 20 04 20260:00/585.09496598639451× The US labour market is being squeezed from multiple directions at once — AI-driven layoffs, tighter immigration, geopolitical uncertainty, and reduced job mobility are combining in ways that are starting to show up in the data. We look at which sectors and