Financial

This week’s data insight – Q1 2025 Earnings – discusses the shifting dynamics in global markets as corporations navigate challenges such as tariffs, trade tensions, and evolving consumer behaviours. Amidst these uncertainties, earnings reports reveal critical guidance for future business strategies and economic resilience. Financial institutions like Goldman Sachs showcased strong performances, with equity trading […]

This weeks data insight – Let’s take stock: Q1 2025 – explores the shifting landscape of standout performers across the Atlantic, following a turbulent quarter in the markets. The focus has shifted from Information Technology leaders to diverse sectors that are driving the S&P 500 this year. CVS Health has emerged as the top performer,

In our latest Seaspray Private financial insight we highlight the Federal Open Market Committee and its role in the Fed’s decision – making regarding future US interest rate projections. Finally, we focus on the US and the recent announcements about further tariffs, which has been driven by the country’s trade deficit.

If 2025 has highlighted anything, it’s that diversification remains a key principle in investing and asset allocation. In our latest Seaspray Private financial insight we highlight the performance of the broader asset class range year to date.

In our previous Seaspray Private financial data insight, we highlighted the divergence in equity market gains between the US and Europe since the beginning of 2025. In todays insight we highlight the standout equity indices of 2025 so far which is our very own ISEQ index and take a look at the underlying companies that

In our latest Seaspray Private financial data insights we highlight the expansion of the Global economy which has grown from a total GDP of $85.2 trillion to $115.3 trillion since 2015, marking an inflation-adjusted growth rate of 35%. We also focus on the U.S where it’s fascinating to consider not only the size of the

In this week’s Seaspray Private data insight we explore what are the factors that are behind European indices outperforming US indices so far in 2025.

With Valentine’s Day upon us, many people are likely wondering what gifts to buy. According to Statista, in recent years, the most popular gifts in the U.S. have been candy and greeting cards, followed by flowers and dining out. While some of these gifts, like a box of chocolates, may seem affordable, falling spending power

As Q4 2024 earnings season continued last week we focus our attention on several of the world’s largest corporations such as Apple, Meta, Microsoft and Tesla.

Todays data insights we examine which companies exceeded revenue estimates and which ones fell short as Q4 2024 earnings season continued last week.

In this week’s data insight we focus our attention on the final earnings season of 2024, with financials taking centre stage. Following a disappointing festive season for equity returns, this quarterly earnings report is crucial for the equity market to set a positive tone for 2025.

The S&P 500 achieved a remarkable gain of over 23% in 2024, marking back-to-back annual increases of over 20%. However, when we delve deeper into this figure, it is interesting to see the disparity in returns among individual stocks that make up what is arguably the world’s most important stock index. In our first Seaspray