2020 year’s end is beginning to show who the winners and losers are in the economic impact of global coronavirus pandemic. Notwithstanding over 1.6 million deaths so far, the effects of the pandemic are going to be felt well beyond 2021. The vaccination programmes, which started in the UK on the 8th December, will take […]
The Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 has brought a global lockdown that has postponed or cancelled many plans and events, including the European Football Championship and the Tokyo Olympics. It has sadly claimed 679,974 lives so far and climbing with spikes across European countries and numbers climbing rapidly in populous counties like India with strict regional
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And now the difficult part starts- easing lockdown and restarting economies. After 2 months most countries in Europe, Asia and North America are trying to return to normality or at least a socially distanced one. Other places like Brazil remain in a life and death struggle with this vicious strain of Coronavirus. Read more Notwithstanding
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Early autumn 2018 has seen equity markets stumble especially those stellar performing ‘tech’ stocks including the FAANGs (September 2018 blog) giving back some of their gains. The bull market long touted about its demise has now suffered the consequences of rising fear factors which have concerned international investors. Rising US interest rates, margins peaking due
In August 2018 Apple was first to reach a market capitalisation of $1 trillion dollars (tn) and now in quick succession Amazon has also burst through the $1tn valuation. Amazon achieved impressive quarterly profits of $2 Billion in July which has lead to a rapid share price surge in recent weeks. Who will be
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I’m looking forward to seeing the back of 2016. However it’s not particularly as an investor that I’ll be glad to see the start of 2017 but as a voter. I have voted 5 times since 2014 in elections for EU, UK and Scottish parliaments, 1 Scottish referendum and in June 2016 the Brexit referendum.
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The performance of the FTSE 100 share index appears to be fine so far after the UK’s Brexit vote, to paraphrase Mungo Jerry’s 1970 hit ,” In the summertime,” before the UK joined the EU, with global investors seeing US and other major indices rise too.
In the summertime when the FTSE 100 is fine, it can stretch right up and touch the sky… Read More »
There may have been a brief stock market rally late in 2015 and any expressed wishes for its continuance have been dashed as 2016 so far has been a tough one for many people and not just investors. Here in the UK floods have battered the country especially in Yorkshire, Cumbria and Scotland.
Another year starting so what’s in store for investors and markets? In 2015 the GDP of the US economy grew at 2.4%, the UK did 2.5% and the EU managed 1.5% with all its currency and migrant upheavals (GS, 2015). China slowed down yet still reported 6.9% causing investors or speculators a heap of disappointment
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During the spring of 2015 major equity market indices such as the S&P500 and the FTSE100 made record highs and most equity investors had a reasonable start to the year. However over the course of the summer, especially since August, these same indices along with share valuations have tumbled sharply. Widely discussed by politicians, economists
