WARNING SHOT ON TECH Last week featured a sharp correction in technology stocks, which fell by 10% at the peak of Friday’s profit-taking. This ‘healthy’ adjustment emerged after the Nasdaq [...]

SAME OLD STORY The past few weeks have been very similar. The US market – powered by a weaker dollar, rock-bottom interest rates and a lack of viable investment alternatives [...]

HIGH HOPES FOR A CURE OR VACCINE Virus cases have been on the rise since lockdown measures were eased. In response, restrictions are being tightened again, which might jeopardise the [...]

TRUMP CIRCUMVENTS CONBGRESS ON NEW STIMULUS PACKAGE Shares have continued to storm ahead amid lower volatility, even though the news on Covid-19 has hardly given reason for cheer. Reporting season [...]

THE 'FANTASTIC FOUR' Last week everything – or almost everything – revolved around the four giants of the US tech sector: Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Alphabet (parent company of Google). [...]

SOFTER OUTLOOK FOR US AMID PANDEMIC The number of daily cases of Covid-19 in the US is spiralling, which is reducing footfall in stores, leading to the prospect of slower [...]

UNCERTAINTY REIGNING The pandemic is still making inroads. In the US, daily records for new coronavirus cases were broken last week, and India re-confined practically 10% of its population. Meanwhile [...]

POSITIVE MARKET OVERTONES BUT INDICES DRIFT SIDEWAYS New Covid-19 cases are worryingly spiralling, as illustrated by the record-high 60,000 new ones reported in the US. But investors are still seeing [...]

BARRELLING AHEAD Stock markets leapt forward at the opening on Monday, riding the momentum seen last week when the main benchmarks already racked up solid gains. Asian indices were up [...]

PROSPECTS FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY VS RAPIDLY SPREADING CONTAGION Volatility shot up on equities towards the end of last week, sending share prices down sharply. Investors had to revise their numbers [...]