FTSE250 Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/ftse250/ North Devon's Leading Wealth Managers Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:32:48 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.miltonpj.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PJMCO-Site-Image-4-100x100.png FTSE250 Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/ftse250/ 32 32 Portents and opportunities for 2025 https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/01/12/2025-gets-off-to-a-bad-financial-start/ Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:32:46 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11594 I am afraid the portents have turned badly for 2025, here at home at least. We are reacting on investment strategies with enough good news stories to help against the negativity and don’t forget the UK was and is very cheap to start, so there is a protection cushion there regardless to make us somewhat […]

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]]> Don’t be hasty! Taking stock after 2024 https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/01/09/2024-review-and-looking-to-2025/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:39:07 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11589 A Happy New Year to all readers of this column and we hope you can look forward to a positive and productive 2025. Our latest ‘eshot’ to clients has provided a brief snapshot of how we have been performing for them during the past year and some of our success stories, so we felt they […]

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]]> New Year greetings and 2024 review https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/01/06/happy-new-year-and-2024-review/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 12:29:08 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11584 Happy New Year to you all. I hope that you have had a restful, positive and reflective Christmas break. Let’s see what the New Year will bring to us all. Some of the themes remain the same and I want to share optimism going forwards but cannot avoid the inevitable warnings about certain excesses too, […]

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]]> Don’t be a superstitious pigeon when it comes to investing https://www.miltonpj.net/2024/12/20/dont-be-superstitious-pigeons-when-market-trading/ Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:47:57 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11569 It’s probably fair to say that many of us have ‘superstitions’ that govern our actions, at least on a superficial level and it was demonstrated in pigeons in the last century! For example, this could be wearing a ‘lucky shirt’ on game day for those who play various sports or perhaps weddings, which are rife […]

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]]> A bad Budget for business – but it could have been worse https://www.miltonpj.net/2024/11/06/business-negative-budget-reaction/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:43:14 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11473 The Budget has finally been unveiled and while many in the financial and wealth management sector are of the opinion it wasn’t quite as bad as we feared, the Chancellor’s package of measures revealed last Wednesday contained some nasty elements too. In our opinion it was a business-negative Budget which won’t help the objective of […]

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]]> A bad Budget for business? https://www.miltonpj.net/2024/10/31/was-the-budget-2024-bad-for-business/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:28:23 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11465 Welcome to the Budget. I suppose we can say ‘it wasn’t as bad as it could have been’ (as inferred previously that perhaps the snowstorm of released rumours was designed to frighten everyone witless) but there were some very nasty things in there impacting many people. I (nor independent commentators) don’t think she needed to […]

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]]> Inflation drops and Budget looms https://www.miltonpj.net/2024/10/28/inflation-drops-and-budget-looms/ Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:45:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11453 So UK inflation surprised to the downside – good news. This should lead the Bank of England to keep its promise to cut interest rates. The only fly in the ointment is what government bonds tell us? They’re worried globally but specifically in the UK about the Budget and probable extra borrowing (via these bonds, […]

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]]> UK shares, Budget and what’s next? https://www.miltonpj.net/2024/08/02/uk-shares-doing-well-labour-budget-effects/ Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:00:08 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11310 Good news in that the Bill about Investment Trust charges’ reporting is very much back on parliamentary agenda. Readers might recall the Election stymied the last attempt. Success would be a very useful outcome for holders of these investment vehicles and see reductions in discounts to asset values as well as open new investment opportunities […]

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]]> General Election issues for the markets? https://www.miltonpj.net/2024/05/25/will-a-general-election-hit-the-markets/ Sat, 25 May 2024 14:55:27 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11186 A General Election looms! So the Dow Jones has pushed higher again, breaching 40,000 and almost double its March 2020 pandemic low. At the depth of the financial crisis in 2009, it was 7,062. Still, you know my sentiments in the short-term here… what possibly could go wrong over there? The UK has been pushing […]

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]]> Autumn market musings https://www.miltonpj.net/2023/11/12/autumn-global-market-musings/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 15:27:55 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=10926 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 […]

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