2025 So let’s play May Day Bank Holiday bingo shall we. One point each for “I can’t believe it’s May already“, “isn’t the year going quickly” and “of course it’s raining – it’s a bank holiday” with a bonus point for “shall we clear out the….”. May always a test of nerves for investors and […]
2025 The good news is this is just the first proper week of earnings. We’re very much in the foothills with weeks to go. Something to look forward to isn’t it as another exhausting day comes to a close (Stoxx 600 -0.26%). An absolute barrage of numbers coming through and the only good news is […]
2025 I can feel the cynicism now. It’s almost palpable. But. I think I’m gonna go with it. I think we have our first theme emerging from the deluge of earnings. You look at a lot of sectors and they’re back to where they were in Feb 2020 before all the Covid nonsense or higher. […]
2025 It’s a funny old game this sales trading lark. It can be lonely one minute and then overly social the next. You can have moments when you think you’re never going to deal again (yesterday at about 4pm) and moments when you get so busy you can’t write your – ahem – end of […]
2025 So we’ve gone from Mega Move Mondays to Admin Mondays in the last couple of months and while that’s – ahem – slightly less exciting it does allow the sales trading team to check in with our analyst teams. We’ve been doing these on and off through lockdown as a way of keeping in […]
2025 Lots of hot air around on World Earth Day as we had one of the busiest earnings day of the year so far but the activity levels unlikely to raise any temperatures as another day of solid to better updates steadied us towards the highs but without much excitement (Stoxx 600 +0.68%). Joe Biden […]
2025 You all strike me as far too responsible to have had to do a speed awareness course but after 28 years of driving without a single speeding ticket a rogue gust of wind as I travelled downhill meant I got caught doing 46 in a 40 the other day. Some pretty amazing stats from […]
2025 One of those rare days where the back pages and the front pages collide as plans were revealed for a European Super League of 15 clubs, sparking passionate debate about the greed of the few at the expense of the many. Obviously the behemoth clubs talking of the trickle down benefits that would be […]
2025 The penny finally dropped today. Here I was focussing on shares and I now realize that all that everyone else has been trying to do all week is to book an outside table. No wonder the volumes are so rubbish. It should be simple shouldn’t it. You want to meet some friends for a […]
Another day of bump’n grind here. The emphasis being less on bump and more on grind really. Volumes painfully low again. This time last year the Stoxx 600 fell 3.24% on 3.5bn shares traded. Today we gained 0.45% on approx 1.5bn shares traded. A good day for a good lunch then (if you could find a table and someone to go with) and you wouldn’t have missed much in the afternoon but there were a couple of bits to focus on that happened earlier in the day.