New year is shaping up!

Picking through a murky market outlook for the rest of 2025

Stocks are living their best life while the dollar is having its worst year since 1973

Europe has been a winner while US has been a (relative) loser

The market has ‘digested’ the stamp-duty rush and demand looks healthy

“A latter-day Rip Van Winkle… napping since the start of the year, might think not much had changed” over the past six months in financial markets, says Randall Forsyth in Barron’s. The S&P 500 index

From AI to goodbyes, and from music to the ear to a poke in the eye