by Cambridge Investments | May 20, 2024 | News
Pluses and minuses It has been a decent week for investors, with global stocks up around 1% from last Monday. British and European equities finished virtually flat, with the US and China slightly up. The gain for US stocks was not outsized, but it was enough to take...
by Cambridge Investments | Mar 5, 2024 | News
Winners and losers of stabilising yields We ended February and started March with a week of positive price action in equities, although the US mega-caps did less well generally, while bond markets were rather stable. Indeed, we think stable bond markets – pretty much...
by Cambridge Investments | Feb 26, 2024 | News
M&A activity sets growth against value Equities have moved higher again this past week, with gains made across global markets. Even China put in another week of positive returns, following the largest ever cut to the five-year housing loan prime rate (admittedly...
by Cambridge Investments | Feb 19, 2024 | News
UK not growing really, not growing nominally As regular readers will know, we tend not to comment on UK matters as much as some, partly because the investment portfolios we manage for UK clients are quite globally focused. But the UK as our home is important to us and...
by Cambridge Investments | Jan 8, 2024 | News
After the party, the hangover The first week of January feeling was eerily reminiscent of one year ago: strikes, endless rain and then everything else that causes the usual January blues. Yet investors in diversified global investment portfolios will get a positive...
by Cambridge Investments | Dec 18, 2023 | News
Central bank elves boost 2023 Santa rally This edition of the Cambridge Weekly presents our outlook for 2024, which we compiled over the past two weeks. Inevitably, much of what we write depends on the starting point and this past week has moved that starting point...