Friday, 11th of December 2020 “We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.” – Nye Bevan ________________________________________ Global equities lost some momentum this week, as investors took profits after six weeks of giddy market gains. T...
Friday, 27th of November 2020 “We have two classes of forecasters: those who don’t know and those who don’t know they don’t know.” – John Kenneth Galbraith ________________________________________ Equities continued to run-up this week, as investor sentiment turned increasingly bullis...
Friday, 20th of November 2020 “Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.” – Joseph A. Schumpeter ________________________________________ Equities continued to power higher this week after the US biotechnology company Moderna on Monday announced that its covid-19 vaccine ...
Friday, 6th of November 2020 “This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.” – Alexander Hamilton ________________________________________ ...
Friday, 13th of November 2020 “To lose patience is to lose the battle.” – Mahatma Gandhi ________________________________________ There has been considerable churn within and across equity indices this week as investors grapple with how best to respond to the impending Biden Presiden...
Friday, 23rd of October 2020 “The darkest hour is just before the dawn” – Thomas Fuller ________________________________________ Markets traded sideways this week as European countries in particular lined up to impose fresh curfews, lockdowns and other draconian restrictions on an incr...
Friday, 9th of October 2020 “No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.” – Tacitus ________________________________________ The stock market rally gathered momentum this week as President Trump made a rapid recovery from covid-19 and returned to the White Ho...
