The world’s share markets mostly saw falls in 2018
2018 was a much more volatile year than its predecessor for investors as Brexit and Trump worried the markets. 2018 was a very different year for investors from 2017. During that year, the share markets generally produced positive returns with very little volatility. Both years had their fair share of dramas, with Brexit and Donald Trump sources of concern across the 24 months. However, whereas in 2017 stock markets seemed relatively unphased by events, the opposite was true in 2018. In sterling terms, the MSCI World Index was down 4.9%, much less than the main UK indices. However, this hides two factors: