monetary policy

While new coronavirus cases are plateauing, although not yet declining significantly, countries in Europe are beginning to judge the economic pain wreaked by Covid-19 containment measures to be worse than the infection itself and are shifting focus slowly...

Stimulus the end of 40 years of 'neo-liberalism'

Recession likely to last for 'at least a year'

"May you live in interesting times," goes the apocryphal Chinese saying. Whether this is a curse, or a blessing is open to interpretation, as all pithy statements are.

While coming within a whisker of calling the low for the S&P 500, it is fruitless attempting to call short-term market moves.

Three steps for markets to bounce back

US equity markets have had their worst quarter since 2008.

Following the unprecedented falls across all financial markets in recent weeks, the safest government bond markets have had to become cash vaults for fund allocators trying to raise the liquidity needed to plug the fast-growing holes left by the equity,...

Covid-19 and oil price plunge spook investors

The global spread of the coronavirus led to a simultaneous shock on both the supply and the demand side of the affected economies.