Reaction suggests investors may no longer swayed by earnings ‘beats’

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

The last 50 years have been kind to investors in real terms. Everything made money: equities, bonds, property and gold. All investors had to remember was not to buy high and sell low. But that hasn’t

Latest major sentiment survey paints a somewhat less rosy picture

Income has historically been one of the best-performing investment strategies. The average annualised return of dividend-paying stocks in the S&P 500 between 1973 and 2024 was 9.2%, compared with 4.3%

Don’t rock the boat. Don’t stick your neck out. Don’t blow your own trumpet. These are all lessons Europeans absorb early, while the US economy runs on exuberance, enterprise and risk-taking. A tellin