Year: 2019

 Friday, 22nd of February 2019 “The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” ― William Butler Yeats   ________________________________________   Markets continued their merry rise this week as confidence builds that Presidents Trump and Xi will reach a c...

 Friday, 1st of March 2019 “He is not a Pashtun who does not give a blow for a pinch.” – Pashtun Proverb   ________________________________________   Markets were broadly negative this week in the face of unnerving developments in Asian geopolitics and after the White House offered conflic...

 Friday, 8th of March 2019 “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it” – Winston Churchill   ________________________________________   Stock markets have fallen back this week, with US indices down every day so far. For the S&P 500, it is only the second time weekly returns have been...

 Friday, 28th of June 2019 “Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” – Winston S. Churchill   ________________________________________     As we go to print, Europe is sweltering under a blanket of hot air drawn north from the Sahar...

 Friday, 5th of April 2019 “An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.” – Evan Esar   ________________________________________   Markets were buoyed this week by positive economic data out of China. But leave the champagne...