S&P 500

Muted equity returns to define the 2020s

Easing trade tensions and growing corporate earnings behind improved metrics

Investors paying premium for high-yielding companies

Market signals pose 'dilemma' for investors

Is Fed losing its independence?

Investors 'waiting on sidelines' for greater Brexit clarity

US equities began 2019 with a welcome respite, reversing course from their downward spiral in December 2018.

Debt has become the opioid crisis of the global economy.

Last month the US yield curve inverted, with the yield on 10-year Treasury bonds dipping beneath the yield on 3-month Treasury bills.

Brexit-proof companies