12/02/2018
It would have been hard to have predicted a week as volatile as the last one. Unsurprisingly we are not going to predict that this week will be any more or any less volatile.
05/02/2018
The highlight of the week will be the Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy meeting where it is expected that the BoE will make no changes to policy and leave interest rates at 0.5%.
29/01/2018
This week marks the US Federal Reserve (Fed) chair Janet Yellen’s last Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, with her term ending this week – no changes are expected to be made at the monetary policy meeting.
22/01/2018
Another week of strong equity market performance as global investors continue to experience a solid start to the year.
15/01/2018
Many of the themes that were present in the first week of the year continued into the second. Global equity markets continued to move higher – The FTSE 100 came close to the 7,800 mark while the S&P 500 is having the strongest start to a year in 16 years.
08/01/2018
While most of the news surrounding the US has been focusing, perhaps alarmingly, on US President Donald Trump’s mental health, it was the mixed employment data that caught our attention.
02/01/2018
2017 could be characterised as a ‘Goldilocks’ scenario for financial markets with global growth accelerating while inflationary pressures remained subdued.
18/12/2017
Last week was the last full trading week of 2017, on Friday the London Stock Exchange will close at 12.30pm – expect liquidity to be lower this week with trading slowing down ahead of the Christmas break. However with lower liquidity can also come more exacerbated moves in asset prices.
11/12/2017
On Friday, the UK seemingly secured the EU’s approval to move Brexit negotiations onto future UK/EU trade relations, and importantly whether a free trade deal is possible. A form of words was found to suit both sides on the three preliminary issues of the financial settlement (or “divorce” bill), citizen rights and the Northern Ireland border.
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