César Pérez Ruiz, Chief Investment Officer Pictet Wealth Management. The Fed delivered a second consecutive 75 basis-point interest rate hike last week, as expected. However, Fed chairman Powell assured markets that he is not on autopilot, ...

Bernard McGrath points out that the rise in interest rates and bond yields means that attractive opportunities can now be found in bond segments such as high yield, European bank subordinated debt and floating rate issues. For the past five ye...

Weekly review by Steven Bell , Chief Economist (EMEA) at Columbia Threadneedle Investments After a challenging first half of the year both equities and bonds enjoyed a reversal of fortunes in 2022. Does this bode well for the remainder of 202...

China’s official NBS manufacturing PMI released on Sunday July 31 surprised to the downside and declined to 49.0, back to the contractionary territory (vs consensus: 50.3; June: 50.2). The manufacturing output sub-index and manufacturing new order...

Today’s inflation is different from that of a year ago. Then, one-off shocks led to isolated price rises in items like used cars. Now, inflation is spread across a much wider basket of components. US inflation for June surprised to the upside aga...

AXA Investment Managers ( AXA IM) today announces the appointment of Gideon Smith, previously Co-Chief Investment Officer of AXA IM Equity QI, as Global Head of AXA IM Equity QI effective 1st August 2022. Gideon Smith Based in Londo...