uncertainty Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/uncertainty/ 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 uncertainty Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/uncertainty/ 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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]]> Markets continue to wobble https://www.miltonpj.net/2026/03/14/markets-wobble-as-iran-conflict-grows/ Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:00:30 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12240 Oh dear, more uncertainties afflicting global markets as a consequence of the attacks on Iran and then the ramifications. They are dreadful and for the innocent people involved but as for the financial implications, on capital markets, maybe retrenchment reflects the ‘need’ for profit-taking it seems. This is even discounting unintended consequences, such as a […]

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]]> Raising tax without result https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/08/01/tax-collecting-without-result/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11925 It seems this Government is being the most successful at raising the rates of tax yet collecting less cash as a result – and doing untold harm to the economy as well as consumer and business confidence the same time. No, this isn’t political comment; it’s simply financially factual.   Whatever one’s politics and no, it’s […]

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]]> ‘Unexpected’ inflation really wasn’t https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/07/26/inflation-rise-is-not-unexpected/ Sat, 26 Jul 2025 15:35:20 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11913 So we have been greeted with an ‘unexpected’ 3.6% inflation and unemployment rising at the same time that vacancies are diminishing (the lowest since Covid). Anyone reading these eshots and realising the increases in costs on employers would not have seen these two things as ‘unexpected’ at all.  Indeed, perhaps the Government should subscribe to […]

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]]> Chancellor tears but not for us https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/07/11/chancellor-tears-but-not-for-us/ Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:53:37 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11899 So, very unconvincingly the Prime Minister supporting the Chancellor’s dire financial announcements brought the wrong sort of tears to her eyes, promptly seeing the cost of long-term UK Government debt rise by a whopping 5% and Sterling losing a cent instantly. Fortunately that was short-lived but we’re still paying far more than at the worst […]

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]]> Inflation remains stubborn https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/07/01/inflation-stays-stubbornly-high/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:41:02 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11884 So, inflation remain stubbornly high at 3.4% despite people not feeling especially confident about spending. So much of our outgoings now go towards ‘tax’ of course and we don’t have any control over that (but government does)… So businesses and organisations are obliged to increase their prices to cover increased costs (especially employment but including […]

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]]> Happy Father’s Day and advice https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/06/15/what-is-the-value-of-good-advice/ Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:41:03 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11868 Happy Father’s Day for Sunday, to all the fathers out there… this year, Citywire was keen to run a piece on fathers and sons working together and we were selected. It is published here… Father’s Day: How Philip and Felix Milton run a firm together so you can read all about how we addressed working […]

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]]> Trump/Musk split but record wealth levels for us https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/06/08/trump-musk-fall-out-record-holdings-for-us/ Sun, 08 Jun 2025 15:36:11 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11854 What strange times we enjoy. Elon Musk and President Trump seem to have fallen-out (it was only a matter of time perhaps?) and all Musk entities are threatened with financial consequences and Tesla falls by the most in one day… we don’t have any or funds which hold them, so we can look-on from the […]

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]]> 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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