(ARTICLE ISSUED BY RODRICK DUCA)Market summaryEuropean markets closed mostly in the red on Wednesday as investors continued to worry about the looming tariffs amid heightened tensions in the trade partnerships between the United States and .

(ARTICLE WRITTEN BY ANTOINE BRIFFA)Optimism is a word that is much more at comfort going into 2018 than it ever was in 2017; growth is a constant almost globally, and deflation is off the vocabulary. .

(This article was written by Antoine Briffa)US data remains consistent with an ideal solid growth scenario. The non-manufacturing conditions ISM index fell in November and this may be due to hurricane-related distortions, however, in any .

(ARTICLE WRITTEN BY KRISTIAN CAMENZULI)Different asset classes exhibit different risk and return characteristics. The use of passive benchmarks serves to represent those risk and return characteristics as used in an asset mix study, leading to .

(ARTICLE WRITTEN BY MARK VELLA)As a practitioner within the finance community, I cannot but stress the importance of financial education on the local scene. I am not the first and will definitely not be the .

(ARTICLE WRITTEN BY MARK VELLA, INVESTMENT MANAGER)I have been opining for a number of years that education on finance is becoming ever more critical in this day and age, not only for investment purposes but .

(ARTICLE BY: Bernardo Serrano Vazquez, Investment Management Support Officer) I am sure you heard it before; “If you let the economy do its job you will find yourself in equilibrium, where demand matches supply, and .

(ARTICLE WRITTEN BY RODRICK DUCA, TRADER)Markets in Europe closed flat to higher on Thursday as investors focused on banks' earnings and digested the latest news on Brexit. Earlier, JPMorgan and Citigroup announced their results for .

(ARTICLE WRITTEN BY ANTOINE BRIFFA)Back in January 2015 in an article titled ‘Implementation of Quantitative Easing in Malta’ I had forecast the following;“Part of the funds will be redirected into the property market. This may .

(Article written by Maria Fenech, Intern)For those unfamiliar with Bitcoin, it is a digital asset that made a statement in markets by catapulting high past the value of gold. It emerged in 2009 as a .