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Mar
Mar
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Magnus is delighted to have been shortlisted for Wealth Management Firm of the Year at the 2024 Wealth & Asset Management Awards. We have some tough competition in the category but we’re proud of of our performance in 2023 and the judges agree! The award ceremony is on the 2nd of May in London at […]
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Feb
Feb
The US stock market took a bit of a breather last week and it was the turn of other equity markets to pick up the slack. UK stocks posted a good week thanks to some good bank earnings (Natwest) and some better-than-expected economic data. Japanese stocks continued their surge, and it was pleasing to see […]
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Feb
Feb
Last week Global equities returned 0.9% last week. The US S&P 500 closed at a record high on Friday. In Sterling terms the weekly gain was 1.3%. UK equities fell -0.6% over the week. The Chinese stock market had its best week in over a year with a gain of 6.02% in Sterling terms for […]
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Feb
Feb
Global stock markets had another good week, thanks to a strong late surge from the US market. This all came through on Thursday and Friday (thanks largely to a 20% gain for Meta in Friday’s trade). This meant that February got off to a flyer, although January was pretty flat for markets. The Magnus portfolios […]
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Jan
Jan
Stock markets had a nice bounce last week. This was driven by some positive noises out of China (around supporting the property market) and some decent earnings’ numbers from European and US companies. This filtered through to UK companies (particularly those with exposure to China), with the UK FTSE All Share having its best week […]
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Jan
Jan
The US share market was the shining light last week for global stock markets, with the US S&P 500 closing the week at a fresh all-time high. This was largely thanks to the big technology stocks within the index and helped global share markets eek out a positive return on the week. This helped the […]
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Jan
Jan
Global stock markets rose last week after a slow start to the year. The key driver last week was the US market which itself was boosted by the big technology names which carry such a large weight (nearly 30%) in the US index. There was also some excellent performance from Japanese stock markets which is […]
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Jan
Jan
Investment markets had an excellent end to the year. In fact, Global Stock markets had their best December since 2010 and UK Gilts had their best month since Brexit! This built on a very strong month of November which meant for an excellent quarter to end a very strong year. For the quarter, global stock […]