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Investment Outlook - Q3 2024
Navigating the interest rate pivot
Watch - Week in the markets - 1 July 2024
This week’s market update
This week in the markets: Politics takes centre stage
What’s driving your investments this week?
Nvidia’s success: 12 crucial facts
The stats that tell the chipmaker’s story
How exposed are investors to the next market crash?
Nvidia’s share price plunge should offer an important wake-up call
This week in the markets: Is an AI bubble inflating?
What’s driving your investments this week?
Investors have had a good 2024 - is that about to change?
Interest rate decisions and volatile elections loom large
How higher interest rates could transform our retirement
4% inflation completely changes the arithmetic of our retirements
This week in the markets: inflation focus
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This week in the markets: Spring is in the air
What’s driving your investments this week?
This week in the markets: the UK shines
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A rising dollar spells trouble for investors
A strong greenback comes at a considerable cost
Markets look to the upside and the case for copper
Investors have been rewarded with a strong week in markets
This week in the markets: the bull market remains intact
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How to invest in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting takes place this weekend
The week in the markets: where next for the Fed?
What’s driving your investments this week?
Is it time to sell the Magnificent 7?
Higher for longer interest rates risk derailing the stocks’ success
Magnificent 7 stumble - a turning point for markets?
Ed and Tom look at the US market and the recent dip in the performance of the Magnificent 7 stocks.
Bitcoin: 7 questions answered
Understanding the world’s largest cryptocurrency
This week in the markets - shares pause for breath after six-month rally
What’s driving your investments this week?
This week in the markets: investors stay calm despite rising tension
What’s driving your investments this week?
Investment Outlook special: What you’re asking us
We put your questions to the Outlook’s author Tom Stevenson.
Investment Outlook 2024 - Quarter 2
The rally is broadening
This week in the markets: rates to stay higher for longer?
What’s driving your investments this week?
This week in the markets: UK shares helped by brighter economic news
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The fund that has 60% of its money in the Magnificent Seven
Several investment trusts have heavy exposure to the tech stars
This week in the markets: rate cut hopes keep the bull running
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Markets go up and down - what matters is your nerve
There’s no such thing as a sure-fire bet
This week in the markets: all eyes on interest rates
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Hedging your bets on US tech
Where can investors look as markets get ever-more concentrated?
This week in the markets - the rally in shares finally broadens out
What’s driving your investments this week?
The biggest question in investment - I think I’ve found the answer
The age-old contrarian versus momentum debate has a winner
This week in the markets: shares close out a positive February
What’s driving your investments this week
Index fund ideas from our Select 50
Get access to the world’s most exciting companies at a low cost
Are we in a stock market bubble?
2024 has seen extreme gains in global markets
5 warning signs we're at the start of a 2000-style bubble
Parallels exist between the dotcom boom and today’s AI revolution
This week in the markets: hearing the echoes of 1999
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This week in the markets - get set for a run of important data releases
GDP, employment, and inflation data is on the economic agenda
Why are the 'Magnificent 7' stocks trending?
7 tech stocks have driven investors into a frenzy
Can big tech become a new source of income?
Meta’s promise of divis sent the shares soaring
What happens to returns when rates start to fall?
The Federal Reserve’s rationale is key
This week in the markets - tech surges despite rate fears
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What markets want on rates & is now the time to buy China?
Interest rates and China are on the agenda
Week in the markets: when will interest rates start to fall?
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Shares at a new high - why it makes sense to invest anyway
A look at history suggests record highs are nothing to fear
Week in the markets: S&P 500 limps to new high
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How investors can ride the ‘Magnificent 7’ wave
Top tech companies have driven the bulk of returns
Week in the markets: investors shrug off new inflation fears
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‘Magnificent 7’ stocks: bubble or a new beginning?
This year may hinge on whether the ‘Magnificent 7’ can continue their run
Investment Outlook 2024 - Quarter 1
Navigating the interest rate pivot
Week in the markets: 2024 starts on the back foot
What’s driving your investments this week?
What is the outlook for interest rates in 2024?
Markets are pricing in cuts but a ‘higher for longer’ environment is here to stay
My predictions for 2024
Recession, interest rates and the markets
Week in the markets: Santa Powell delivers a year-end rally
What’s driving your investments this week?
Which investments won (and lost) in 2023?
And did investors pick the winners?
Did you miss out on the US stock market boom?
Understanding how currencies can affect your investments
Week in the markets: all eyes on the Fed’s 2023 finale
What’s driving your investments this week?
Investment trusts: a rare opportunity
One of the many reasons to like investment trusts
This week in the markets - Knockout November
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My thoughts on the year ahead
Tom Stevenson explores what next year holds for investors
Week in the markets: where next in 2024?
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Week in the markets: Rapid rebound
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Is falling inflation a game-changer for markets?
How the recent fall in UK inflation may impact your finances
Week in the markets: is inflation back on track?
What’s driving your investments today?
What funds did investors buy in October?
The most popular funds with our investors last month
This week in the markets: Shares bounce back on hopes for peak interest rates
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Why Warren Buffett invested in Apple - and it’s still paying off
Apple met all of Buffett’s selection criteria
Have rates peaked? And is Buffett still relevant?
The big news affecting the markets this week?
Week in review: Big tech, falling house prices and the triple lock
What you need to know from this week’s financial news
Market news today - will tech giants steady market nerves?
What’s driving your investments this week?
Is the US stock market cheaper than we think?
Finding value in the world’s leading market
The stock market recovery has echoes of the dot.com bubble
A group of high-growth companies once again provide a port in the storm
Market news today - where next, a year on from the low?
What’s driving your investments this week?
How markets respond to war
Investors should aim for a well-diversified portfolio
Investment Outlook 2023 - Quarter 4
Looking for direction
What ETFs did investors buy in September?
The most popular exchange traded funds (ETFs) with our investors last month
Market news today - the return of volatility
What’s driving your investments this week?
Market opinion is divided - here’s why
The recession question will be key to investor sentiments
Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF - pros and cons
Low-cost tracker that replicates the hard-to-beat S&P 500 index
Market news today: back to bonds
What’s driving your investments this week?
What funds did investors buy in September?
The most popular funds with our investors last month
Market news today: the Fed’s cold shower for investors
What’s driving your investments this week?
Interest rates peaking? What it means for your investments
How will assets react when rates begin to fall?
How important is the iPhone 15 to Apple’s success?
And how to assess the world’s biggest company
Where to invest when the pound is weak
How investors are affected by a weak currency
Market news today - next interest rate decision looms
What’s driving your investments this week?
3 unmissable charts of the week: US inflation, emerging markets and property
Three handpicked charts that reveal some gripping stories
Is September really the worst month for investors?
Autumn has historically been a dangerous time
Market news today - autumn blues
What’s driving your investments this week?
3 unmissable charts in the week: oil and inflation, US valuations and pensions
The most exciting charts in the news
Market news today: odds shorten on a soft landing
What’s driving your investments this week?
The week in charts: US interest rates, UK mortgage borrowers and Persimmon
Here’s this week’s revealing trio of charts
What happened to the stock market rally?
The stock market rally has come to a halt. Why?
When bad news can be good news for investors
US and China show that the economy and markets don’t march to the same beat
What investment trusts did investors buy in August?
The most popular trusts with our investors last month
Market news today: China seeks to rebuild confidence
What’s driving your investments this week?
All eyes are now on the Federal Reserve
US economy has remained robust, but markets could be volatile again
Market news today: Fed in focus at Jackson Hole
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Growth or value: How to navigate a two-speed world
What to do when one part of the world is hot and another is not
Why ordinary investors missed out on the stock market surge
New risks abound for those keen to catch up
What ETFs did investors buy in July?
The most popular exchange traded funds (ETFs) with our investors last month
What funds did investors buy in July?
The most popular funds with our investors last month
Are contrarian bets about to pay off?
This week, are contrarians about to enjoy a long-awaited day in the sun?
Market news today: so far, so good for earnings
What’s driving your investments this week?
5 things we learned this week
Where do you fall on the “good times / we’re all doomed” consumer mood continuum?
Contrarian investing is harder than it looks
The last week has seen three significant changes of tack in the markets
Market news today - UK plays catch up
What’s driving your investments this week?
5 things we learned this week
From Barbie’s big-screen debut to the legacy carmakers left in Tesla’s wake
The macro and the micro factors moving markets
This week, we're looking at two of the big influences on share prices right now
Is now the time to buy cheap UK shares?
UK shares are trading at a significant discount
Market news today - glass half full
What’s driving your investments this week?
Companies in the news this week
The movers & shakers on the UK and US markets this week
What the Nifty Fifty can tell us
Events in the 1970s showed valuation premiums don’t last forever
Investment Outlook Special
In this podcast Ed Monk puts your questions to Tom Stevenson, author of the Investment Outlook. Questions this time were dominated by themes of inflation, interest rates and their knock on effects to portfolios.
Market news today - earnings back in focus
What’s driving your investments this week?
Investment Outlook 2023 - Quarter 3
Diversification remains critical
Why diversification mattered in the first half of 2023
Diversification continues to be crucial
The 5 most actively traded stocks in June
Tesla is in the spotlight ahead of results
2023 is a harsh reality check to investors
Three of the world’s main stock markets have confounded expectations
What ETFs did investors buy in June?
The most popular exchange traded funds (ETFs) with our investors last month
Half-year report: why did investors get it so wrong?
This week, how are markets - and investors-doing at the half-way point of 2023?
Market news today - a crucial week for US rate decision
What’s driving your investments this week?
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