Friday, 7th of August 2020 “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” – Elvis Presley ______________________________________ August has been a good month for equities so far. Ahead of the Friday market open, the S&P 500 Index is up +2.4% this week, following on from strong performance...
Friday, 24th of July 2020 “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.” – William S. Burroughs ________________________________________ After a strong start to the week, markets turned down on Thursday when weak US jobs data hinted that the coronavirus outbreak in the ...
Friday, 10th of July 2020 “Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems” – Sun Tzu ________________________________________ Markets were mixed this week as investors’ nerves frayed a little due to the mounting coronavirus death toll in the Southern US, while weaker data took s...
Friday, 3rd of July 2020 “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw ________________________________________ Stock markets charged higher again this week, riding the wave of liquidity and positive sen...
Friday, 26th of June 2020 “Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.” – Vladimir Nabokov ________________________________________ Equity markets pushed higher through much of this week, with the notable exception ...
Friday, 19th of June 2020 “Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.” – Sophocles ________________________________________ This week the English Premier League kicked off once again after a 100-day lockdown hiatus. With little by way of social distancing on the pitch, and players shunning mask...
Friday, 12th of June 2020 “May the wind be always at your back.” – Irish Blessing ________________________________________ Equity markets went into reverse this week as investors finally woke up to the fact that they were flying too close to the sun. Since the US market peaked on Monday,...
