The fastest rises in history During the last few months, we have witnessed one of the quickest increase in official interest rates ever (in particular, we refer to the European…
Since the beginning of March, a few incidents happened in the banking sector. This came quite unexpectedly at a time when everybody was saying that the banking sector is nowadays…
The Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.25%. Yesterday, the FED decided to increase interest rates by 0.25%. This takes the official target range of FED FUNDS to 4.75% to…
It was widely expected that the first quarter of 2023 would have seen the world economy falling into a recession. As often happens, expectations are being disattended and the last…
During the last few days, one important US bank was closed. It was all stunningly quick. Silicon Valley bank was considered one of the best US banks. In just a…
In the current macroeconomic situation, a lot of uncertainty persists. The circumstances are certainly peculiar, and it is difficult to find similarities with the past. This produces a lot of …
During the last years we have witnessed a period of inflation never seen in the last 40 years. With the benefit of hindsight, it might be interesting to reflect on…
Our strategic portfolios are thought for long term investors. They are built on the basis of long term relationships between asset classes, and they are not supposed to be tactically…
As expected, this week, central banks executed another round of interest rates hikes. This is the last one of a series of very quick hikes that they decided in order…
During 2022 we have witnessed a huge volatility in bond markets and also the forex market had some important moves. The euro against the dollar touched a low of 0.95…