Market meltdown

“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

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

“Pick a side,” says The Economist. While the US and China have smoothed over their own trade spat, US strategy has pivoted to pressuring “unfortunate third countries” to do the dirty work of isolating

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

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

Picking through a murky market outlook for the rest of 2025