September 2023 - Philip J Milton & Company Plc

Charitable efforts at home – and abroad

From helping to bring a local play area back to life to supporting people in the most poverty stricken areas of Africa, the Philip J Milton & Company Plc Charitable Foundation works on behalf of multiple good causes. During the course of a year the Foundation – which evolved from our Firm as part of...

‘Goldilocks’ economy is proving elusive

July saw a ½% slip in our economy, partly to do with the lack of productivity from strikes and partly the weather affecting things like construction. Sterling has been weak too – partly too as a consequence of the expectation that interest rate rises to stem inflation (which is falling dramatically) have come to...

Better news for the economy?

Well, curious admissions from the IMF and feeding-through to the ONS. Everyone puts such store of value on economic statistics only to find that all the criticisms about our sluggish economy over the last few years were wrong... what is worse, however, is the deluge of commentators sarcastically loving to ‘rubbish’ the efforts of...

Are the ‘magnificent seven’ seriously over-extended?

An ‘emperor’s new clothes’ scenario could be applied to US tech stocks, which have been highlighted before in this column and we still feel could be living in an unreality bubble. There was a very interesting article by Peter Atwater, an adjunct lecturer in economics at the College of William and Mary, Virginia, in the...

Should you follow the trends?

Well, more encouraging inflation figures from shop price rises buoyed our market after the Bank Holiday. That said, who noticed that up till then, the global markets had retracted by 5% ($3trillion) in the month (the calculated losses from the S&P500, China’s CSI300 and Europe’s Stoxx600). This was affected by China and its banks’ distress...

Charitable efforts at home – and abroad

‘Goldilocks’ economy is proving elusive

Better news for the economy?

Are the ‘magnificent seven’ seriously over-extended?

Should you follow the trends?

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