Well we started Q1 with a +0.67% move and we started Q2 with a +0.61% so it feels only appropriate that we start Q3 with a +0.62% move. The mountain of money continues to pour into equities (if indeed a mountain can pour) and All Time Highs becoming a bit boring to talk about. Usually […]
It’s probably not ideal that the new symptoms for the latest Covid variant are a headache, nausea and a sore throat – large swathes of the nation waking up with all three today but mostly seeing things improve by mid-morning. What. A. Win. Anyway let’s not jinx anything. Nothing to see here. Plenty going on […]
Ok so hands up if you DON’T know someone who is self-isolating right now. Covid is rife again isn’t it? I know it’s not leading to deaths and I know you’ll all shake your heads and tell me “you need to look at the hospitalisations Quicky”. I get all that. But it doesn’t mean it’s […]
Well you can tell the times they are a-changin when the Sun headline writers get an absolute open goal on the UK Health Secretary’s unusual take on social distancing and decide to go with “Han-Ging By a Thread” rather than using anything more salubrious. BoJo accepting Matt Hancock’s apology and declaring the matter closed but […]
A Fed speaker frenzy. A deluge of macro. A cluster of earnings. This was a good old fashioned Thursday with all sorts going on and the extra energy that it generated saw the market back on song (Stoxx 600 +0.87%). Let’s start with the macro and no surprises from the Bank of England with rates […]
Did they or didn’t they? Of all the possible geopolitical situations that are simmering right now, you wouldn’t have imagined RUSSIA FIRED WARNING SHOTS NEAR BRITISH SHIP IN BLACK SEA to be the headline to pop up but that was what we got just before lunchtime. Swiftly denied by the MoD who said they “did not recognize the claim that bombs were dropped in HMS Defender’s path”.
Did they or didn’t they? Of all the possible geopolitical situations that are simmering right now, you wouldn’t have imagined RUSSIA FIRED WARNING SHOTS NEAR BRITISH SHIP IN BLACK SEA to be the headline to pop up but that was what we got just before lunchtime. Swiftly denied by the MoD who said they “did […]
Well #cryptocrash is trending on Twitter but so are #grealish and #sancho so lets make this quick so that we can focus on the important matters. All eyes on Bitcoin today as the crucial $30,000 support gave way briefly and cryptocurrencies saw a wave of selling. That only puts XBT back to where it was […]
A Monday chock full of tussles. It’s hard to know where to look. The fight between No 10 and No 11 (the Chancellor said to be losing patience at BoJo’s lofty ambitions being announced without feeling the need to figure out how we’re going to pay for them). The emotional rollercoaster that is the US […]
Annnnd breath. Quite the day that as the second largest single stock options expiry in history (only Jan 2021 bigger) and an index rebalancing collided with the reverberations of a Fed meeting that people are still unpicking to see us finish a busy week in a bit of a frenzy. In Europe we finally had […]