Investors set to sell off US stocks at record high levels Investing Investors are set to cut their exposure to US stocks to record high levels as global growth expectations have fallen to 30-year lows this month. A net 82 per cent of investors expect the global economy to weaken, down from 44 per cent in March, according to the most recent Bank of America global fund [...]
Confidence in UK stocks hits new high among retail investors Investing Confidence in the UK market has hit new highs among British retail investors as savers move away from US stocks. A third of all retail investors are backing the UK as the top performing stock market over the next five years, a survey of 1,000 investors from Etoro found, well above the previous record of [...]
Investment industry shuns US stocks amid Trump tariff threat Investing Investors are finally pulling back from US stocks amid uncertainty over president Donald Trump’s looming tariffs and potential for better gains in Europe and the UK. A survey of investment management CIOs from Asset Risk Consultants (ARC) found that a third of wealth managers slashed exposure to the US throughout the last quarter. Sentiment among [...]
US markets tumble as Fed signals fewer interest rate cuts in 2025 December 19, 2024 US markets plunged last night after the Federal Reserve signalled that it would take a more cautious path to interest rate cuts next year. Following the Fed’s announcement, the Dow Jones fell 2.6 per cent, the S&P 500 fell three per cent, and the Nasdaq fell 3.6 per cent. This was the biggest decline in [...]
How this fund beat (and shorted) the S&P 500 October 12, 2024 Finding US companies to short can be hard when it feels like the stock market can only go up, but some stock pickers make a living off of it. “It’s a year where the markets have been on the tear,” Scott Utzinger, partner at Crawford Fund Management and manager of its US long/short fund, told [...]
US recession fears ease but markets remain firmly in the red August 5, 2024 US stocks cratered on Monday as the prospect of a recession in the world's largest economy spooked investors across the globe and tech giants were hit by a mass sell-off.