Donny DBM/iStock via Getty Images Highlights The fund incurred losses in Q4 2025 from positions in fixed income, equities, and commodities. Risk assets remained resilient in Q4, although momentum waned as investors balanced supportive policy expectations against a growing list of risks, including fiscal sustainability, inflation pressures, slowing growth, and softer labor markets. Trade policy vol...
Donny DBM/iStock via Getty Images Highlights The fund incurred losses in Q4 2025 from positions in fixed income, equities, and commodities. Risk assets remained resilient in Q4, although momentum waned as investors balanced supportive policy expectations against a growing list of risks, including fiscal sustainability, inflation pressures, slowing growth, and softer labor markets. Trade policy volatility, elevated deficits, and geopolitical fragmentation have become embedded features of the macro landscape, influencing term premia, cross-asset correlations, and the reliability of historical diversification relationships. Market review and outlook The risk-on environment seen in the third quarter extended into Q4, despite continued uncertainty around trade policy, fiscal expansion, and geopolitical developments. October featured leadership changes in France and Japan, continued trade tensions between the United States and China, and an uncertain economic outlook that was further obscured by a lack of data due to the U.S. government shutdown. Equities extended their upward trajectory, supported by strong earnings, expectations for further monetary easing, and sustained enthusiasm around technology and AI. Global fixed income rallied meaningfully as markets absorbed the U.S. Federal Reserve's (Fed's) 25 basis-point rate cut and the prospect of further central bank easing across developed economies. November began with uncertainty surrounding the U.S. government shutdown, while hawkish Fed commentary created doubts around a December rate cut, weighing on equity and fixed-income markets. When data ultimately arrived mid-month, it pointed to cooling consumption, softer labor-market momentum, and a notable deterioration in consumer sentiment, which renewed rate-cut expectations and led to a rally in global equity and fixed-income markets. December saw markets finish the year on a cautiously optimistic note. U.S. equity performance was mixed as investors weighed another Fed...
This week's Terafab-driven rally has reignited Intel's AI narrative, but after such a sharp move, the stock faces a higher bar in its upcoming earnings.
This week's Terafab-driven rally has reignited Intel's AI narrative, but after such a sharp move, the stock faces a higher bar in its upcoming earnings.
(RTTNews) - Georg Fischer AG (GF.SW, FCHRF), an industrial manufacturing company, on Monday announced that it has signed a contract worth approximately CHF 100 million with Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP (SBSP3.SA) to support the modernization of w
(RTTNews) - Georg Fischer AG (GF.SW, FCHRF), an industrial manufacturing company, on Monday announced that it has signed a contract worth approximately CHF 100 million with Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP (SBSP3.SA) to support the modernization of w
(RTTNews) - Rolls-Royce SMR has signed a contract with Great British Energy - Nuclear that paves the way for the design and delivery of the first small modular reactors in the UK. The company said the two-stage contract with GBE-N will enable site-specific design activity and pre
(RTTNews) - Rolls-Royce SMR has signed a contract with Great British Energy - Nuclear that paves the way for the design and delivery of the first small modular reactors in the UK. The company said the two-stage contract with GBE-N will enable site-specific design activity and pre
Swedish retailer continued to advertise partnership with Soly and failed to offer me any advice I am one of many left thousands of pounds out of pocket after signing up for solar panels via Ikea’s website late last year. Ikea had partnered with the European installer Soly, and the fact the panels were being advertised via such a well-known company gave us confidence. Continue reading...
Swedish retailer continued to advertise partnership with Soly and failed to offer me any advice I am one of many left thousands of pounds out of pocket after signing up for solar panels via Ikea’s website late last year. Ikea had partnered with the European installer Soly, and the fact the panels were being advertised via such a well-known company gave us confidence. Continue reading...
After the death of his husband, Antony Sher, the former RSC director embarks on a quest to see every First Folio This is really two books in one. The first part consists of the diaries written by Antony Sher in the six months before his death from liver cancer in December 2021 . The second, longer part is a record by his husband and partner of 35 years, Greg Doran, of an obsessive quest to see as ...
After the death of his husband, Antony Sher, the former RSC director embarks on a quest to see every First Folio This is really two books in one. The first part consists of the diaries written by Antony Sher in the six months before his death from liver cancer in December 2021 . The second, longer part is a record by his husband and partner of 35 years, Greg Doran, of an obsessive quest to see as many of the more than 200 extant copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio as possible. Taken together, the two parts amount to a very moving record of one person’s confrontation with death and of his partner’s attempt to cope with survival. Sher, in his multiple roles as actor, artist and writer, was always a shrewd observer, and what he called The Dying Diaries show a characteristic mix of candour, resilience and wit. He doesn’t minimise the horror and writes at one point that “this cancer thing is like a bomb in our household”, which sits there unobtrusively and goes off at unexpected moments. But he also confronts it with wry humour. When he discovers that the two lesions in his liver are the size of a satsuma and a walnut, he thinks that might make a good title for his diaries. Reflecting on the fact that the last play he did, Kunene and the King by John Kani, was about an old South African Shakespearean actor dying of liver cancer, he adds: “Who says that actors don’t take their roles home with them?” And although his last days are grim, what comes across is his and Doran’s shared delight in many things, from wildlife to tapes of the US comedian Jackie Mason, and their unshakeable love for each other. Continue reading...
Late-night gallery tours and new venues signal a city staking its claim as a regional arts capital On a recent weekday evening, the doors of more than a dozen galleries and museums across Abidjan stayed open till midnight, several hours later than usual, as art enthusiasts went around town on a bus tour. It was the Night of the Galleries, designed for people to drop in after work and enjoy Abidjan...
Late-night gallery tours and new venues signal a city staking its claim as a regional arts capital On a recent weekday evening, the doors of more than a dozen galleries and museums across Abidjan stayed open till midnight, several hours later than usual, as art enthusiasts went around town on a bus tour. It was the Night of the Galleries, designed for people to drop in after work and enjoy Abidjan art week to the fullest. The after-hours special showcase was first tested in January 2024 on the sidelines of the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament hosted and won by Côte d’Ivoire. The tradition continued this year during the art week’s third edition, which ran from last Tuesday to Sunday. Continue reading...