Posts by Bruce White
Three charts on ebbing misery
Three charts, one theme. Fear has been ebbing away in markets...it's almost gone.
Smash hits and crash dips
2017 marks a number of financial anniversaries; the 1987 stockmarket crash, the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and the beginning of the global financial crisis. As we haven’t really experienced an extreme boom or crisis recently, looking back will be a refresher as to what could occur, but also provide a wider perspective on investment returns. Nothing is as evocative of the past as its music, so we accompany our look back with a soundtrack of those hits we think have withstood the test of time, and those hits that we would rather forget.
Summer Viewing
If 2016 was the financial market equivalent of gripping TV drama with surprise plot twists, 2017 has been the year of test pattern TV. So far in 2017, worries about North Korea, the French elections, or President Trump-related developments have only had short-lived and localised impacts on markets. So is there anything we need to be watching this summer?
Flying yellow submarines
We've seen buoyant market conditions of late. In fact, conditions are so buoyant that they have brought to the surface some rarely seen dwellers of the market depths.
