Feature

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...

There is no doubt companies' sales and earnings are being hit across Japan.

The coronavirus pandemic is a human tragedy, but could it accelerate the transition to a more sustainable economy?

Against the backdrop of financial markets across the world falling steeply in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, investors rushed to traditional safe havens in a bid to safeguard their investments

"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.

Covid-19 will impact the companies driving global decarbonisation in the short term, just as it is affecting all businesses.

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

As ever, looking at Japan from a Bull/ Bear point of view proves to be a challenge.

European equities have declined 26% during 2020 owing to the rapid spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Consequently, economic activity indices have declined to multi-year lows.

Amid the increasingly sobering economic projections and single issue news coverage, it is easy to become blinkered.