Volatile first half: how markets fared around the world

Investors have a lot to think about as the president’s policies gather momentum

Things haven’t been great for the UK stockmarket over the last two decades. Indeed, the City has been a “serial underachiever”, especially when compared with the US, says Andrew Jones, a portfolio man

UK equities are having their time in the sun. The FTSE 100 recently hit an all-time high of 9,000, driven by a broad recovery in equity prices. To put it another way, the rally wasn’t just driven by a

Investors may reappraise the TINA trade

Issue of the week: Europe’s capitulation Trump’s ...

“I keep reading that Donald Trump is an economic genius,” says Matthew Hennessey in The Wall Street Journal. The story goes that the “punishing recession prophesied by the priests of the economic reli