2025 Well that’s one way to distract the masses from Partygate isn’t it? Dishy Rishi out with a neat little party trick of his own at lunchtime as he announced a cost of living package worth £15bn with £9bn targeted at the poorest third of UK households. A combination of higher winter fuel payments, payments […]

2025 A quick look back on a quiet day to this time two years ago. The (sadly temporary) Redburn Manchester office disbanded and moved back down south as my mum recovered from her week in a Covid induced coma. The Snapshot – still in its infancy – talking of Astrazeneca working on a vaccine and […]

2025 Little Fires Everywhere not just Mrs Q’s favourite book of the last few years from bookclub (where at least 3 mins of each meeting is dedicated to discussing the book) but also a great article by Mohamed El Erian last week looking at just what was going on in the world. A series of […]

2025 So I was admonished by my daughters this weekend when I described MYSELF as OCD. Apparently you can no longer say that about yourself unless you’ve been formally diagnosed as OCD as otherwise it undermines all those who HAVE been diagnosed as OCD. Keep up Quicky. Anyway all I know for certain is that […]

2025 So every Friday one of my favourite clients (you’re all my favourite really…) sends me a Friday tune to mark the end of the week. He’s having a bit of a trendy phase right now (new younger girlfriend etc) so he’s been peppering me with bands I’ve basically never heard of. What he actually […]

2025 Blood rain, thunderstorms and then bright blue skies. It’s changeable out there. Today was a May day which felt like the middle of August in all honesty. Recent trading sessions have been increasingly choppy and, as one seasoned professional sighed today, it’s hard not to become immune to what are huge price moves. This […]

2025 Alright pens down. Make reading the Snapshot the last bit of work you do today. It’s time to do an over-exaggerated stretch, look at your watch, say “right then” out loud to nobody in particular and start packing up. Go and enjoy the sunshine. Don’t worry – the boss won’t do much. The workers […]

2025 Ceci n’est pas un snapshot. Sometimes when there’s nothing to say, you’re better off saying nothing. I could take the Courteney approach from last Thursday of course and write an entire Snapshot before forgetting to send it out (I think he might be a tad tired…) but – to be honest – with the […]

2025 So I’m not prone to giving life advice but I do advise you to be extremely careful when you type “seismic shifts” in any write-up. One of our sales team missed out the all-important F in an email a few years ago and still shudders at the memory (although he did get an uptick […]

2025 A new pandemic sweeping the Redburn office (and possibly most of the UK) today as hayfever sufferers announced themselves loudly (and possibly over-dramatically?) to those around them. All sorts of sympathetic words of advice being issued by fellow sneezers but the key one would appear to be a quick trip to Boots to load […]