by Cambridge Investments | Mar 22, 2021 | News
Tug of war – bonds vs. equities This week marks the anniversary of the turning point of the 2020 COVID stock market crash. Investors looking at their one-year portfolio returns may well be astonished to find double-digit return figures, ranging from around 15% for...
by Cambridge Investments | Mar 15, 2021 | News
Recalibrations Stock markets around the world have had another choppy week, but this time there was more up than down across the board and bonds yields stopped their upwards trend – at least for a while. The general upward trend notwithstanding, there was a lot of...
by Cambridge Investments | Mar 8, 2021 | News
Stock markets are finding they cannot have it both ways Another week of bond market price falls has pushed ten-year government bond yields upwards everywhere except Japan. The US ten-year yield experienced the biggest rise of the developed world, up almost 20 basis...
by Cambridge Investments | Mar 1, 2021 | News
Earnings look set to stabilise wobbling markets Last year, equity markets started to wobble around this time. For example, on 19 February 2020, the NASDAQ 100 closed at an all-time high of 9718.73 before sliding back as the far-reaching implications of the pandemic...
by Cambridge Investments | Feb 23, 2021 | News
In this investment update, Lothar Mentel, Cambridge’s Lead Investment Adviser, discusses why bond yields matter to equity markets.
by Cambridge Investments | Feb 22, 2021 | News
One year on – who would have thought One year ago, on 19th February 2020, stock markets hit their pre-pandemic high. Over the five weeks that followed, markets plunged in the most extreme global market crash ever known, as the world accepted that COVID-19 was a threat...
