89929 Pollen count in London ‘Very High’ or code red for the rest of the week , and I hope my fellow passengers on the district line could tell that I was indeed one of the many sufferers at the moment and not someone particularly red eyed and teary on my way in today. Piriteze […]
89929 Well I for one am relieved we had the ECB today else this snapshot would be pretty thin reading. On the face of it all was in line with expectations: Inflation projections revised up substantially, QE to end on 1st July, rates to rise 25bps in July and again in September (potentially a larger […]
89929 “How long can this go on?” chimed one particularly disgruntled client as markets were on the whole steady and interest waned. Sideways markets in a tight range are painful for lots of people (especially sales-traders!) but may be a welcome respite to some having tumbled so aggressively in the first quarter. An FT Article […]
89929 With the Tube strikes still affecting the London commuter scene and the sun shining I decided to cycle in. Legs a bit sore I hopped on one of these fancy electric bikes that scatter the streets and headed into town. Everything was smooth till I tried to park it with the GPS playing up […]
89929 Writers block – in which an author is either unable to produce new work or experiences a creative slowdown. Not much catching my eye today so we’ll put it down to a creative slowdown and it feels apt as we head into June. The end of month flurry that I promised you was….erm….not there […]
89929 A holiday interrupted week kicked off today with Memorial Day in the U.S. whilst we have a two day Jubilee bank holiday at the end of the Week in the UK. Add in School half terms and it feels like any business to be done will largely be complete by the end of play […]
89929 Hump day is based on the idea that the work week is a mountain one must climb – this mountain feels quite high at the moment and I’m out of breath. On the 26th April the Snapshot featured ‘Cash on the Side-lines’ and since then the broader European equity market is down 160bps with […]
89929 Checking the out of office replies on today’s Snapshot and looking for “Is out the office for the foreseeable as I’ve won £184m.” Good on you if you were the winner, I would hope you wouldn’t be reading the Snapshot and if there was ever an advert for the lucky dip it was the […]
89929 A lot of hype around this evening and what may lay ahead, a lot of pressure on a team of individuals to get it right, one of the biggest moments of the year thus far and when all is said and done and with apologies to my colleagues in Madrid, I’m backing Man City […]
89929 Today was a day for Equity purists. A plethora of names all hitting the tapes both pre market and a splattering throughout the day letting us know how they were coping in these challenging times. Having taken a backseat compared to the macro moves of late, markets were on the whole benign enough for […]