BIL INVESTMENT INSIGHTS

Safe haven assets, including gold, rose at the start of the week in response to the US intervention in Venezuela which sparked questions about the future of the world’s largest oil reserves. The Venezuelan oil industry produces less than 1% of global oil output despite...

Written on 19 December, The Weekly Investment Insights newsletter will be paused over the holiday period, returning on January 9. Thank you for your readership. We wish you a happy and safe holiday period, and a fortuitous New Year! After a slight stagger early Friday,...

US stock markets celebrated the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision last week, with several major indices touching all-time highs. However, on Friday, the S&P 500 fell back and relinquished its gains as renewed concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) spending triggered a sell-off in the technology...

Major US stock indices ended last week in the green, with investors betting that the US Federal Reserve will give markets an early Christmas present in the form of an interest rate cut on Wednesday. Weakening labour market data further cemented rate cut expectations for...

Thanksgiving meant that last week was cut short for the US stock market, but that did not stop major indices from ending the week higher. Optimism about a potential interest rate cut by the Fed in December boosted the market. The Nasdaq recovered from the...