s&p 500

After basking in fever pitch risk-on sentiment in the previous week, global markets slumped last week as dour economic forecasts from the U.S. Federal Reserve and a...

Risk-on sentiment prevails global markets last week – so much so that even previously neglected sectors such as financials began to attract interest. Key drivers were...

Resilience, time after timeFormed all the way back in the late 1800s, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is considered one of the key benchmark indexes for the US...

A look back at the NASDAQNot to be overshadowed by the larger New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the NASDAQ is the world’s second-largest stock exchange based on...

“In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.” Winston Churchill With the S&P 500 Index enjoying a rebound of ~28%...

Much global human activity is grinding to a halt as Q2 2020 gets underway. Rolling lockdowns of economies around the world have driven sharp falls in leading...

There was a brief period when “Faded (Where are we now)” topped the charts recently and we thought it would be an apt title for this week’s blog. Late last year, our...

Markets have changed and probably not for the better. Investor complacency seems to be the norm as their reliance on central banks and policymakers to come to the...

Buying undervalued stocks is traditionally the way investors seek to deliver returns over the long term. At Vega Capital, we utilise a differentiated way of looking at...

Let’s start by reviewing what the yield curve actually is. Consider a range of durations for government notes, for example, you can have 3-month notes, 1-year notes,...