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Week ending January 22, 2016 Last week was the first positive week of 2016 with the S&P Global 1200 up a modest 1.46 per cent and the US S&P 500 up 1.43 per cent. Year to date both indices are down — Global was down 7.56 per cent whilst the US index...

For the week ending January 15, 2016 For the first two weeks of the New Year, stocks are down around the world: the S&P Global 1200 Index was down 8.64 per cent; the S&P US 500 was down 8 per cent; whilst the Nasdaq was down 10.36 per cent. Last year...

For the year ending December 31, 2015 No firework celebrations are in order for global equities markets at the end of 2015. The S&P Global Stock Index was down 0.84 per cent on the year whilst the S&P US 500 Index was up a slight 1.37 per cent. In re...

For the week ending December 11, 2015 Intra-day moves in equities markets last week could be characterised as “see-saw” each day, but ending the week decidedly negative. For the five days to December 11, the S&P Global 1200 Index was down 3.42 per ce...

For the week ending December 4, 2015 The interplay of markets and central bank agendas created volatile moves in all financial assets during the week, both on the upside and downside, as market expectations were not met. On Thursday, Mario Draghi, th...

Week ending November 27, 2015 All eyes are on the Fed so the slew of US economic data that came out last week takes on considerable importance with respect to whether the Fed raises short-term interest rates or not. Third-quarter GDP was revised to...

For the week ending November 20, 2015 US markets led equities markets higher last week with the S&P 500 index up 3.27 per cent versus the S&P Global 1200, which was up 2.82 per cent — this despite terrorist attacks in Beirut, Paris and Mali. US indi...

Week ended November 13, 2015 Both the S&P Global 1200 and the S&P 500 (US) were lower last week — down 2.86 per cent and down 3.56 per cent respectively. For the S&P 500, this was the biggest drop since August. (For BIAS, the week before that was one...

Week ending November 6, 2015 Our strategy worked really well last week with the performance on the Global Equities fund about 150 basis points ahead of the S&P 1200 Global Index and the Dividend Income approximately 100 basis points ahead of the same...

Week ended October 23, 2015 Global markets were driven by three factors last week: • US dollar appreciation against other major currencies. • Reports of drug pricing manipulation by Valeant Pharmaceuticals. • Knockout earnings, particularly for the t...