Keep your powder dry and let the worm turn
What will the Autumn Statement mean for you and the UK?
The much-anticipated Chancellor’s Autumn Statement on Wednesday contained some good news for workers and measures that will help ISA savers and investors, but the overall effects on the UK economy remain to be seen.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced he was cutting the rate of National Insurance from 12% to 10%. This will be effective from...
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....
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...