Analysis: Indices

Europe gets back in the game against Wall Street

And it's more than a simple rotation out of AI.

How US policy sent defense giants plunging

Ideal market conditions, a $500bn check promised to the Pentagon, and yet, a market in freefall. As the midterm elections approach, fears of a slowdown in defense spending are sending the US defense...

AI has tipped China's stock market bearish

The CSI 300 is heading for a 10th consecutive week of declines. This time, it was neither real estate nor consumption that pushed it there, but the collapse of its own artificial intelligence stocks.

Chip Panic: Should You Flee South Korea?

If, unfortunately, you recently put all your savings into the South Korean market, chances are you are having a very bad month of October. The AI theme seems to have gone from undisputed queen to...

India, a fiscal signal and an index back at support

India's finance minister opened the debate Tuesday on the tax levied on every stock market transaction in the country, with shares jumping. Behind that signal is a market weighed down by oil and down...

Brazil's Stock Market Anticipates Its Liberal Revolution

Brazilian financial markets soared Monday after Senator Flavio Bolsonaro outperformed expectations in the first round of the presidential election. The son of former leader Jair Bolsonaro narrowly...

Could this be the end of the good times for America's big banks?

Just days before the official start of the Q3 earnings season, some fund managers around the world must be looking at the KBW Bank Index with a touch of nostalgia.

Nikkei 225: Behind AI, another engine of the Japanese rally

AI is driving the Nikkei's heavyweights, but the revaluation of Japan's stock market also rests on reforms that are beginning to produce tangible results.

Nearly 30% growth expected on Wall Street in Q3, but beware of a disappointment…

The S&P 500 is entering earnings season with particularly high expectations. Analysts have raised their third-quarter earnings forecasts, an unusual development, while the index still needs to post...

Magnificent 1 + 6: when Meta alone carries Big Tech

No more blank checks for the tech giants. While Mark Zuckerberg is finally cashing in on AI dividends, the rest of the group is running out of steam.

LVMH, Kering, Hermès… When the luxury empire starts to wobble

There is no longer any stock market miracle for luxury names. The string of profit declines among Europe's leading players confirms that no sector, even the strongest, is immune to economic cycles.

Twenty years of Europe's stock market told through ten stocks

Oil majors and banks in 2006, pharma and defensives in 2016, technology and industry today: the ranking of the biggest weights in the Stoxx 600 tells the continent's economic story in ten lines, with...

Another cold Turkey for Istanbul

Anyone who has followed the Turkish stock market for a few years is now used to the roller-coaster, even though most investors have probably never set foot there. But for those with money on the line,...

When markets panic over AI… then backtrack

Declaring SaaS dead because of AI was a bit like shutting down law firms because ChatGPT can write a demand letter. The market panicked, knocked down giants, and then realized it might have gotten...

How the SMI lost touch with the 14,000-point threshold

In Zurich, the SMI has fallen by over 5% in a month, after setting an intraday record of 14,669 points on August 11. The slide reflects a broadly bearish global market backdrop, but also a selloff in...

The emerging market that has outperformed the Nasdaq 100 over the past 10 years

With an annualized gain exceeding 20% over the past decade, the MSCI Kazakhstan has dramatically outperformed major global indexes, delivering a return nearly twice that of the MSCI World and almost...

Outpacing Wall Street: Colombia's surprise stock market comeback

Shunned by investors under the Petro presidency, Colombia's market is staging a spectacular rebound after Abelardo de la Espriella's election. Does that make it a bet worth taking?

S&P 500 or Equal Weight: the same index, two radically different bets

Buying the S&P 500 can feel like one of the most neutral moves in investing. Five hundred large American companies, a globally followed benchmark, low-cost ETFs, and instant diversification. But that...

S&P 500 or Equal Weight: the same index, two radically different bets

Buying the S&P 500 can feel like one of the most neutral moves in investing. Five hundred large American companies, a globally followed benchmark, low-cost ETFs, and instant diversification. But that...