LONDON, July 14 (Reuters) - Hedge funds sold bank stocks for the second straight week and piled into consumer staples at the ...

This isn’t a huge surprise. Bigger banks have been a haven during many recent periods of volatility. Even so, such sharp outperformance is rare. Only in two quarters in the past decade has the ...

"At some stage, someone’s bluff could be called," says Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid. "If huge tariffs do get imposed on August 1st, in thin holiday markets, we could get a sizeable market reaction.” ...