When scrolling through the economic play book in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, commentators were quick to raise the spectre of a rising inflationary pulse...
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Following the relative strength of the Japanese yen and the Euro last year against sterling, this year has so far seen sterling strengthen...
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The bond market has struggled with a heavy dose of indigestion as bond yields rose through the quarter...
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Since March last year equity markets have been reliant on the expectation that the huge and combined central bank and government support would see us through...
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Dear me, markets like a new year to apply a volte face, don’t they? No sooner had the headlines about the death of UK equities been metaphorically scribed than they show some signs of life...
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At last! There are welcome early signs that lockdown restrictions are easing from those most difficult days of winter and we can begin to look forward again...
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Equity markets began the year on a wave of vaccine-induced euphoria but a spike in bond yields, admittedly only to a level similar to those immediately prior to the pandemic, has been difficult to digest...
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You have your own political views, you are assaulted by everyone else’s
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As the chart shows, the ‘risk off’ currencies of US dollar, swissie, and yen have all strengthened this year
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