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Investment value and the Autumn Statement

I am pleased to report that whilst I have been in South Africa, with the Autumn Statement happening, values on market investments seem to have been nudging gently upwards, after unrelenting negativity. That’s helpful but the opportunities are not quite so attractive of course then – but still compelling. We have just issued what we...

Autumn market musings

I am going to be signing-off for a few weeks now for a much-needed proper break, (excluding Christmas) the first since July last year, so am completing an eshot just before I disappear. Of course I shall be keeping more than a wary eye on things and especially the markets (the joys of global internet...

Better after the storm

I hope that your hatches are battened-down adequately against the latest storm bringing wild and wet conditions across much of the UK. Do keep safe. So after a law firm’s review, Nat West shares plunged more on the comments into the shenanigans over the attempted removal of Mr Nigel Farage’s account than the latest quarter’s...

Market sentiment and what it means

Good afternoon. The horrors from the Middle East have not abated. The whole situation is so sad and it is impossible to predict the outcomes. In ways not seen in past decades and centuries, the inert hatred from certain quarters seems to have also manifested itself across the World, in civilised populations which have...

Dreadful Gaza war and market reaction

What awful atrocities are happening in Israel and Palestine. Our sympathies go out to all the innocent people and their families affected. Hamas’s action is evil and no protest deserves what it has done, regardless of any ‘excuses’ about its lands and people. The conflict pushed the oil price back up and on Monday, unless...

Negative markets but a good PJM average

The 15th anniversary of Lehmans’ collapse passed on 15 September. Aren’t memories short – the world’s whole financial system could have imploded (and really Lehmans shouldn’t have been allowed to go - and liquidity could have been used - its demise exacerbated the problems). The financial downturn was the worst since the Great Depression....

‘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...

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...

Is inflation deflating? And is your adviser clued up?

Inflation is coming-down – only 6.8% and for the first time since 2021, lower than the increase in average pay (including bonuses etc). Food inflation is dropping even faster. Some of the reasons are ‘pigs in pythons’ – when a big increase a year ago drops-out of the figures. The next big hit will be...

Investment value and the Autumn Statement

Autumn market musings

Better after the storm

Market sentiment and what it means

Dreadful Gaza war and market reaction

Negative markets but a good PJM average

‘Goldilocks’ economy is proving elusive

Better news for the economy?

Should you follow the trends?

Is inflation deflating? And is your adviser clued up?

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