Rachel Reeves Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/rachel-reeves/ North Devon's Leading Wealth Managers Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:08:01 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.miltonpj.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PJMCO-Site-Image-4-100x100.png Rachel Reeves Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/rachel-reeves/ 32 32 Global uncertainty but spring is here https://www.miltonpj.net/2026/04/04/spring-arrives-amid-global-uncertainty/ Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:55:58 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12269 Welcome to spring and longer days (with all the clocks springing forward too). It’s always lovely to see new life bursting forth, oblivious to everything else happening in the world and ever was it thus. In this we have something to appreciate, regardless of all the geopolitical traumas or indeed personal afflictions which may be […]

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]]> Hunting for safe havens https://www.miltonpj.net/2026/03/25/where-are-the-safe-haven-funds/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12254 Where are all the safe havens? As the markets slip, even gold and silver fall (though as I have kept saying, they have been too dear anyway and ‘alternative safety’ assets need always to be cheap to start). Not that we’re chartists but the charts for those two have boded very badly indeed. We have […]

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]]> Dollar doldrums and silver surfing https://www.miltonpj.net/2026/02/13/dollar-down-and-silver-surfing/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:45:45 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12194 Quietly and gently and perhaps almost unnoticed, the US Dollar had been seeing a drift downhill before strengthening again over last week. Against Sterling it has now been the lowest since September 2021, having fallen by over 26% since the Pound’s trough in July 2022. We are not so unhappy as we have currency in […]

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]]> Some growth but inflation bites https://www.miltonpj.net/2026/01/30/small-uk-growth-but-inflation-bites/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12178 It’s been good to see some economic growth with an unexpected 0.3% figure in November. Services and production rose and construction fell. The results at least counter some of the previous slippage but won’t be giving a great annualised figure regardless – but all helping.  Likewise, whilst we read a colossal 700,000 graduates are unemployed, […]

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]]> Happy New Year for farmers https://www.miltonpj.net/2026/01/06/happy-new-year-for-farmers/ Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12147 A Happy New Year. I hope that your celebrations of all Christmas really means was good and joyful and that you have seen-in the New Year with relish! Already the days are opening-out and spring, albeit very cold, is daring to peek through the wintry gloom. What a nice Christmas present for ‘farmers’ with the […]

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]]> Welcome to our new clients https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/11/24/clients-new-and-old-very-welcome/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:56:46 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12078 Good afternoon. It is a pleasure to welcome a number of new clients bringing funds to our fold – thank you very much indeed for the confidence expressed and looking forward to having you in our Elite Club! We don’t take ‘just anybody’, either! We guarantee one thing – that we shall try our best […]

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]]> Budget ‘black hole’ is filling with rumour if nothing else… https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/11/24/budget-rumours-swirl-amid-speculation/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12091 This Wednesday, (November 26) the Chancellor will unveil her much-anticipated Autumn Budget and reveal her latest plans for filling the alleged ‘£20 billion black hole’ in the public finances. Or is it £30bn? So what will be in Rachel Reeve’s Budget and how might it affect you? That is certainly the £20billion question because, as […]

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]]> What the Chancellor should be saying in a pre-Budget speech… https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/11/12/chancellor-gives-pre-budget-speech-joke/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12096 We try not to do politics in these columns but following headlines suggesting Chancellor Rachel Reeves may well become the first to increase Income Tax in 50 years in fact (breaking manifesto pledges in the process), we had a little go at envisaging her speech before the November 26 Budget. (The following is tongue in […]

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]]> A message from the Chancellor… https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/11/07/chancellor-pre-budget-speech/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:30:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12068 Good afternoon. I have just returned from a relaxing and much-needed break which took us to bustling Hungary, Slovakia and Austria. Yes, I took the computer though the inbox defied my occasional review so apologies if you are still awaiting my reply! I returned to an unexpected speech from our Chancellor. I should like to […]

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]]> Uncertainty and wobbles on global stage https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/10/23/growth-slows-amid-global-uncertainty/ Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12055 Some really positive news from the Middle East at last. Whatever you think of him, well done President Trump for being the catalyst – time to move onto Russia in earnest now.  Let us hope that this awful conflict will also be over very soon now. Sadly, economically at home, unemployment rises, wage growth slows, […]

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