The Cambridge Weekly – 31st July 2023

Rate rises bouncing off ‘Teflon’ markets Equity markets continue to be buoyant after the rate rises in Europe and the US. Some market participants have been calling this the ‘Teflon market’ because nothing sticks to it. We would rather think of it as a sort of running...

The Cambridge Weekly – 24th July 2023

Another inflation driver turns over Last week’s markets have, yet again, revolved around inflation, wages and profit margins. In the UK, we finally got a little of the good news that has been stoking US markets. Inflation wise, June turns out to have been not so bad....

The Cambridge Weekly – 17th July 2023

Core inflation slowdown equals upbeat equity markets We wrote last week that markets had come to expect another round of significant interest rate rises from central banks, and that risk assets such as equities were likely to come under some pressure. At the end of...

The Cambridge Weekly – 10th July 2023

Markets sour on news of resilient economy Last week we commented how the second quarter’s positive stock market returns were driven by a somewhat surprising improvement in investor sentiment. It’s surprising for several reasons. At the end of  March, fear was...

The Cambridge Weekly – 3rd July 2023

A glass half-full half year Halfway through 2023 and, all in all, things have been fair-to-middling for markets. We’ll have a more detailed run-through of asset class performances in next week’s Weekly, but an assessment of the changing economic and markets landscape...