Cyrille Geneslay, fund manager at CPR Asset Management, says he has made a major sectoral and geographic reallocation in the CPR Croissance Réactive fund. It has repositioned itself on European cyclical stocks ...

Spanish banks' reassuring Q1 results showed that they should be able to withstand rising cost of risk in 2020, thanks to strong pre-provision profits. But uncertainties abound, and the risk of a longer-than-anticipated economic contraction remains.

Spain's tourism sector makes up approximately 12% of its GDP and 13% of its employment, and a steep decline in this market will heavily impact the country's payments sector, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

Scope's outlook on European banks continues to be biased to the downside in view of the magnitude of the Covid-19 crisis. The key question is whether banks have de-risked enough to withstand the current cycle.

The first three months of 2020 go down in history as the worst Q1 ever for global stock markets. Many measures of market stress reached levels last seen in the financial crisis and some price moves were on a scale not witnessed since the great Crash of 1929. The surge in market volatility reflects one of the most abrupt adjustments in investor sentiment ever seen...