North America
Investment | 29 Nov 16
ANALYSIS: Will the Fed turn its back on the world next year?
With a December interest rate rise now close to certain, investors will no longer be trying to assess when the Federal Reserve will raise rates next, but what the path will be after this.
Finance, energy and health sectors in focus for 2017 – Citi
Sector investing may come back in 2017 and an EM `stability premium’ could develop as the grand economic ideas of the new US administration are put into practice. says Roger Bacon, Citi Private Bank’s Asia-Pacific head of managed investment.
Will US equities binge mean a Thanksgiving hangover?
As Americans get stuck into their Thanksgiving day celebrations the rest of the world still has its eye on the investment ball and some may be weighing up whether, just as with food, you can have too much of a good thing.
North America | 24 Nov 16
IRS targets virtual currency in tax avoidance probe
As part of its investigation into tax avoidance through the use of virtual currencies, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has filed a petition with a California court requesting personal data from virtual currency exchange firm Coinbase.
Don’t mistake equities’ current sanguine run for real strength
Investors should not rest too comfortably on the relative calm with which equity markets have greeted both the UK’s EU referendum and the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency warns Guy Stephens.