‘liberation day’ sell-off ranks up there with the worst of them

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

“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

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

Oil shock averted? World leaders and commodity traders have spent the past fortnight on edge as the long-running Iran-Israel conflict turned hot. Matters came to a head at the weekend when the US dire