Angela Merkel has been re-elected as German Chancellor following elections in the country yesterday. Though it was a convincing win for the CDU/CSU (Christian Democratic Union of Germany and Christian

American markets look flat today With the most successful index being the Dow Jones (+0.04%). Energy and mining stocks have been some of the weakest across the globe thanks to new data from China which

START THE WEEK Asian equity markets had a mixed session today. The FTSE Hong Kong index rallied (+0.14%) helped by good corporate results in the region, but a little risk weighed on overall sentiment across