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Picking through a murky market outlook for the rest of 2025

Issue of the week: the US/UK trade accord ...

Companies in the news ...and how they were assessed

Issue of the week: are markets too complacent? ...

“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

O n a recent trip to Boston, I ...