Market Insight

Keep up to date with market news and insights and read our review of the week's significant activity in all major financial markets.

Last week in the markets - Andrew Webb

Shares back in favour a year after the collapse

Investors continued to gain confidence in equities which headed higher this week, consolidating recent rises. Steady, if unspectacular daily gains through the week lifted shares across the world. But opinion polls in the UK indicated the probability of a hung parliament at this spring’s general election and undermined confidence in the pound, which slumped through the $1.50 level for the first time in ten months.

Weekly outlook - Tom Stevenson

What a difference a year can make

Each week Tom Stevenson shares his perspective on the market. Tom has been a financial journalist for nearly 20 years, writing for the Investors Chronicle, The Independent and more recently the Daily Telegraph.