UK Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/uk/ North Devon's Leading Wealth Managers Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:21:34 +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 Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/uk/ 32 32 Is ‘stagflation’ looming and what can you do about it? https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/02/12/are-we-heading-for-stagflation/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:21:28 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11665 Interest rates have been cut to 4.5% as expected but with low economic growth, higher unemployment and price rises, some analysts fear we are heading for a period of ‘stagflation’. First coined in the 1960s, the term simply means economic stagnation on the one hand and inflation on the other, which is neither beneficial to […]

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]]> Good value, gold and Blackstone https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/02/12/good-value-trust-assets/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:52:02 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11655 Good afternoon. We hear BP may be in play as Elliott Investors in the US has accumulated a stake in one of our biggest companies. It’s ridiculously good value regardless and hasn’t kept up with other energy stocks. Meantime, our funds under management see yet new heights which is good, as many deep value assets […]

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]]> Trump tariffs and market wobbles https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/02/04/trump-tariffs-cause-stock-market-wobbles/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:00:24 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11638 We woke to face the reverberations from the threatened tariffs against Canada and Mexico by President Trump, amongst others and the EU and possibly the UK next. The markets are wobbling and the Dollar strengthening as it is feared the US will have to raise interest rates to support its policies as well as staving-off […]

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]]> A pre-Christmas snapshot of the economy and markets https://www.miltonpj.net/2024/12/12/economy-facing-issues-pre-christmas/ Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:46:42 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11522 Well, whilst I anticipate another eshot just before the festivities, it seems apt to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas season, celebrations and relaxing times. The new government will be looking forward to some rest and apt navel gazing over the break. I am sure we shall all be wondering what might ensue from Syria […]

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]]> ‘Goldilocks’ economy is proving elusive https://www.miltonpj.net/2023/09/22/goldilocks-economy-is-a-difficult-balance/ Fri, 22 Sep 2023 12:16:28 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=10865 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 an […]

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]]> What’s the state of the nation? https://www.miltonpj.net/2022/11/26/what-is-the-state-of-the-nation-taxes-and-markets/ Sat, 26 Nov 2022 15:35:34 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=10351 So the Autumn Statement is behind us. Taxes are up and so we now face the highest tax burden since WW2 as well as ‘enjoying’ the biggest public spending since the 1970s. The ‘Office for Budget Responsibility’, a relatively recently created quango and chaired by Richard Hughes, (Ed Miliband’s former policy adviser who was a […]

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