US equity bull market to keep on rolling: Morningstar
After a slow start, US equities gathered steam towards the end of 2016 to become the sector’s best performer, a sign that the durable US bull market keep on rolling.
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US tops newly-launched ‘Political Stability Index’
Charles Stanley has launched a new Political Stability Index to help investors assess the level of risk in the major developed stock markets.
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US equities – the Trump honeymoon period continues
A little over a month into Donald Trump’s presidency, US equity indices are at record highs and money keeps flowing into the asset class. Are markets right to be sanguine?
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Trump tweets on US stocks winning streak , but is he right?
The S&P 500 stock index posted a record high on Wednesday, prompting Donald Trump to tweet enthusiastically that the market was on its “longest winning streak in decades”. Is this correct, or are we dealing with just another alternative fact?
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Sorting through the winners and losers post-Dodd Frank
The dismantling of Dodd-Frank will give European banks with ties to the United States a competitive advantage and could influence other nations to adopt a more competitive regulatory scheme.
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Trump slams brakes on fiduciary rule
Donald Trump is to sign a directive halting the implementation of the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule, which requires financial advisers of retirement products to act in the best interests of their clients.
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Fiduciary rule critic loses White House job on ethics grounds
A vocal critic of the US Department of Labor’s (DoL) fiduciary rule, Anthony Scaramucci, will no longer be appointed to a role in Donald Trump’s White House due to an ethics conflict.
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US equity markets to ignore protectionist threat
If Donald Trump makes good on his proposal to impose tariffs on all imports from Mexico to fund the construction of a wall on the country’s border with the US, this will have a profound impact on the US economy and on the profitability of some US companies. Are markets right to ignore this threat…
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Opportunities follow EM debt rebound but caution urged
In 2016, emerging market debt staged a spectacular recovery following a dreadful performance in 2015. However, it is important to make a distinction, between local and hard currency bonds, says Morningstar analyst Carlos Gonzalez-Lucar.
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China less vulnerable to US protectionism than other EMs
Despite concern about China’s vulnerability to Donald Trump’s brand of isolationism, there are good reasons to be optimistic about the country’s growth in 2017, says Ed Smith, asset allocation strategist at Rathbones.
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UK advisers to recruit as more pass £1m income barrier
A third of UK advice firms reported annual income of more than £1m ($1.23m, €1.16m) in 2016, with nearly half of all firms planning to recruit in 2017, according to a survey from insurance giant Aviva.
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Trump’s treasury pick fails to disclose $100m in assets
Donald Trump’s nominee for treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, failed to disclose nearly $100m (£81.3m, €94m) of his assets to the Senate Finance Committee and neglected to mention his role as a director of an investment fund located in the Cayman Islands.