The article explores what Section 899 could have meant for global markets and why its absence may prove just as significant as its original inclusion.
This article originally appeared in Investment Strategy Quarterly – July 2025.
Our latest Investment Strategy Quarterly considers the complexities of today’s markets while drawing insights from the past. This edition includes the historic and current impact of tariffs, asks if the US still holds its safe-haven appeal for investors, and examines energy costs and AI. Closer to home, we take a look at Labour’s first year in office.
The second Investment Strategy Quarterly of 2025 takes the lid off some of the big themes in global investments at the moment, including the Trump effect across tariffs, deregulation, deportations and more, as well as options for UK market resilience in the face of challenging times. We also take a look at potential strategies for Europe and the case for industrial metals.
Read all this and more in Investment Strategy Quarterly: Markets on the Clock.
Jeremy Batstone-Carr, Raymond James European Strategist, takes a deep dive into some of last month’s destabilising activities including the potential ramifications of the new US administration’s campaign promises and the recent upset in the technology sector generated by China’s norm-busting AI model, DeepSeek.
Our first Investment Strategy Quarterly of 2025 brings insight and opinion including 10 themes to watch out for in the US this year, what we think we might expect from Trump 2.0, potential effects on the energy market as focus moves from geopolitics to the electric grid, what we know (and don’t know) about uncertainty, plus where (and how) there may be economic growth this year.
Read all this and more in Investment Strategy Quarterly: 2025 Outlook
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