Market Performance

14 April 2025

Liberation Day: week two
Market performance. Look across the past week and the overall market changes may surprise you

08 April 2025

Liberation Day or Demolition Day?
Market performance. Most markets moved further in the two days after Donald Trump’s Rose Garden speech than they did in the entire first quarter

03 April 2025

USA 'liberation day'
Donald Trump’s tariff announcements, which are upsetting global investment markets

01 April 2025

Market performance - the first quarter of 2025 was not quite as expected
Why the first quarter of 2025 was not quite as expected. The FTSE 100, which ended the first quarter of 2025 up 5.0%, despite a turbulent end to March

12 March 2025

The US stock market - the Trump effect
The US stock market, which is defying bullish predictions made after the November election

06 January 2025

A view of the markets since the start of 2020
A five-year view, which shows the dominance of the US stock market since the start of the decade

02 January 2025

The FTSE 100 has recorded a fourth consecutive year of growth
The FTSE 100, which ended the year up 5.7%, slightly better than the 2023 figure. Drill down and the Footsie’s relative performance is not as disappointing as it might appear