Trading rooms have changed a great deal since the golden boys of the 1980s and 2000s. Today, the atmosphere is more subdued, dominated by electronic access and automated orders. The veterans of this era, immortalised in films such as "Wall Street", "The Wolf of Wall…

Laurent Denize Global Co-CIO ODDO BHF Asset Management. "There are 1,300 days to go until the next US presidential election. After 100 days, it is fair to say that the twists and turns have been much greater than initially expected" “Move fast and break things”…

Context And then there was calm. Relative calm, for now. The hurricane unleashed on global markets by President Trump’s sweeping trade tariffs, announced on 2 April, has turned into more of a regular storm thanks to a pause on the imposition of the levies for…

US loses its AAA status César Pérez Ruiz, Chief Investments Officer Pictet Wealth Management. The week in review Equity markets rallied last week after the US and China agreed a reduction in tariffs at a meeting in Geneva. Under the agreement, tariffs on Chinese exports to…

David Ross, CFA, LFDE's emblematic American manager, was not wrong. At the end of 2024, he warned that the market would be going through some difficult times at the start of the year. The key to investment will lie in prudence over the next few…

Oxurion NV (Euronext Brussels: OXUR), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative therapies, announces the signing of a binding agreement to acquire 72% of the share capital of Axiodis CRO through its wholly owned French subsidiary, Oxurion France. The transaction amounts to €468,000, valuing…

"In the fog and rumours of the market, you have to be able to distinguish the true from the false" In his regular presentation at the beginning of May, Christopher Dembik, Investment Strategy Adviser at Pictet AM, gave an analysis of the economic data, with…

Tariffs de-escalation César Pérez Ruiz, Chief Investments Officer Pictet Wealth Management. A historic week ended with white smoke – or “fumata bianca” – rising from the Vatican, where cardinals elected the first US pope, and with the US and China agreeing to major tariff reductions for…