UK markets Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/uk-markets/ North Devon's Leading Wealth Managers Sat, 24 May 2025 13:13:56 +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 UK markets Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/uk-markets/ 32 32 Crisis, what crisis? All good here! https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/05/24/crisis-what-crisis-we-are-doing-well/ Sat, 24 May 2025 13:13:53 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11832 Before anything else, have a really lovely Bank Holiday weekend. I shall be helping at Braunton Fair on Monday and catching-up tomorrow… Crisis? What crisis? Could be the question our investors pose about the recent Trumpian-created volatility as we seemed to sail-through unscathed and emerging from the other side seemingly in better shape than when […]

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]]> Market news and investment https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/05/16/market-news-and-investment-potential/ Fri, 16 May 2025 15:20:14 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11820 Meta and Microsoft both topped analysts’ expectations for latest quarter’s results at the same time the US economy suffered a regression of 0.3% in the first quarter’s ‘growth’ – apparently nothing whatsoever to do with President Trump of course and his actions of late. Gold has come-off its top – an over-extended spike it might […]

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]]> ISA reform looks likely – but no details as yet! https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/04/30/isa-reform-looking-more-likely/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:27:07 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11815 A shake-up of Cash ISAs seems on the cards as the Government has given its clearest indication yet that it is looking to reform the system. That’s a good thing as it will encourage people to see ‘investing’ as different from ‘saving’! As reported by online financial news platform Citywire, City Minister Emma Reynolds has […]

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]]> Growth, debt and the Titanic… https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/04/30/are-trump-tariffs-akin-to-titanic-moment/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:08:05 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11803 I was reminded recently that on 14 April it was the anniversary of the Titanic hitting the iceberg, in 1912. Had it hit it head-on, it would not have sunk. Are there analogies here for President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements…? This is either the fact that 90% of the problem isn’t obvious or maybe that […]

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]]> Inflation slows but is it the calm before the storm? https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/04/23/inflation-slow-calm-before-the-storm/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11811 While the news inflation slowed in March to 2.6% is welcome and an interest rate cut is widely expected next month, it may simply be a brief glow of light to ward off the spectre of ‘stagflation’ a little longer. The recent quakes from Trump’s tariffs have subsided for now and some analysts are upbeat […]

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]]> Trump tariffs – don’t panic https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/04/04/trump-tariffs-hit-markets-hard-dont-panic/ Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:33:11 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11766 This is not long after my last missive but clearly President Trump’s tariffs are creating temporary havoc. However, it is very disconcerting and especially when a whole year’s ‘normal’ returns for investors can be wiped out in just a day’s movement on a market. No-one alive has faced tariff announcements of this nature. The last […]

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]]> ‘Low key’ Spring Statement contained few surprises https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/04/02/spring-statement-holds-no-great-surprises/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11762 The Chancellor’s Spring Statement did not contain a great deal we hadn’t already heard and no immediate prospects for economic growth. In a relatively low key affair, Rachel Reeves set out her latest update on the economy and restated plans to cut the welfare budget as well as making cuts to Government departments, as we […]

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]]> Volatile US stocks https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/03/08/us-stocks-volatile-with-uncertainty/ Sat, 08 Mar 2025 13:32:22 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11721 Volatility led by the US has escalated quite dramatically. It’s impacted market values – especially some US tech cos and Nasdaq has drifted 10% now but the concerns over tariffs and the Ukraine situation and the US reaction to it, let alone clumsy politics and diplomacy, have not helped. Suddenly Nvidia and Tesla aren’t looking […]

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]]> Election results https://www.miltonpj.net/2024/07/05/election-results-good-luck-to-the-new-government/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 21:10:28 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11293 I realise this is hot on the heels of the last missive (it’s a short one!) but whatever your politics, I offer my hearty congratulations to Sir Keir Starmer on his success yesterday. The outcome is very decisive and we wish him and all of his soon-to-be-assembled team all the very best in managing our […]

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