So it’s not the Oscars until 21st April but we already have the winner of Best Original Score in a Drama. That prize undoubtedly going to the Suez Canal Authority on Youtube for their hauntingly suspenseful music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk2WSGJ_rKw). Still no movement and the day’s major attempt to refloat the Ever Given ending in failure and prompting the New York Post to start murmurs of a global toilet roll crisis. Surely not another one? At least that gave us all some memes to look at as we again finished a dull week with a whimper.

So with a bit of luck this is the last non-Thirsty Thursday. Meeting up outside allowed from Monday and things on track to improve from there as we’re now just 52 days from the pubs being properly open and 88 days away from beers anywhere, with anyone. Looking at the 13th straight day of no move bigger than 1% (Stoxx 600 -0.07%) you could be forgiven for thinking there wasn’t much going on but there’s always something going on and today it came from the very left field.

Well it was an exciting day if you’re the captain of the Ever Given container ship but this was another forgettable day generally. Markets seeing their twelfth day in a row of a move of less than +/- 1% and it’s going to take more than a blockage of one of the world’s busiest trade routes to shake things up. A sign of the world w