Flight to Safety: What Are the Prospects for Traditional 'Safe Havens'?

Flight to safety: What are the prospects for traditional 'safe havens'?

The role of US Treasuries and the dollar as the world’s preferred ‘safe-haven’ assets has come under heightened scrutiny following an extraordinary period in markets. After US President Donald Trump’s 2 April unleashing of tariffs on America’s global trading partners, equity markets promptly went into freefall. Usually, investors would expect treasury yields to fall in this scenario, but instead they spiked. While equities have largely picked up…

Manufacturing is a safe haven

Economic uncertainties abound. But as columnist Caleb Chamberlain writes, amid the tumult, manufacturing isn’t a bad place to be.