Markets balanced persistent inflation and geopolitical energy risk against resilient activity and lower bond yields. Technology volatility exposed concentration concerns, while regional policy and fiscal differences produced increasingly varied market outcomes.
Don’t Fear the Frontier
Markets were dominated by a renewed inflation scare, with rising sovereign bond yields, tighter monetary policy expectations, and growing concerns over stretched AI related valuations driving volatility across global equity and fixed income markets.
Equities vs. Bonds: Bond is back… with a licence to yield
Markets balanced resilient activity and earnings expectations against high bond yields, fiscal strains and renewed energy risks, leaving central banks constrained as regional equity and bond markets diverged.
OATs – You Reap What You Sow
Slower US employment growth, energy-led inflation and rising sovereign borrowing costs shaped markets, while resilient technology shares contrasted with broader weakness in bonds and rate-sensitive sectors.
Higher for Longer, For Longer?
Markets balanced resilient activity and strong technology investment against a renewed rise in sovereign yields and volatile energy prices. Diversification remained important as regional growth, inflation and policy risks continued to diverge.
Back to basics
Markets grappled with rising bond yields, higher energy prices and renewed rate-hike expectations as geopolitical tensions intensified globally.
The Trump Dividend
Markets grappled with rising bond yields, higher energy prices and renewed rate-hike expectations as geopolitical tensions intensified globally.
UK Gilt Yields and UK Natural Gas Prices
Markets grappled with rising bond yields, higher energy prices and renewed rate-hike expectations as geopolitical tensions intensified globally.