Italy

UK exposured to Italy via German and French banks

Defensive stance

After a terrible share price performance since the start of the year, Vodafone provided a more reassuring set of half year results last week.

Few regions have experienced as bifurcated an economic landscape as Europe over the past decade.

Growth projected to fall throughout the bloc

Avoiding freezing of US-China ties

Spat does little to calm nerves

Tit-for-tat rhetoric doing little to ease tensions within bloc

The election of an anti-establishment government in Italy sent investors fleeing and Italian government bonds (BTPs) witnessed record outflows earlier this year. Antonio Ruggeri, manager of the OYSTER European Corporate Bonds fund at SYZ Asset Management,...

Bearish on bonds