Friday, 19th of June 2020 “Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.” – Sophocles ________________________________________ This week the English Premier League kicked off once again after a 100-day lockdown hiatus. With little by way of social distancing on the pitch, and players shunning mask...
Friday, 10th of July 2020 “Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems” – Sun Tzu ________________________________________ Markets were mixed this week as investors’ nerves frayed a little due to the mounting coronavirus death toll in the Southern US, while weaker data took s...
Friday, 24th of July 2020 “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.” – William S. Burroughs ________________________________________ After a strong start to the week, markets turned down on Thursday when weak US jobs data hinted that the coronavirus outbreak in the ...
Friday, 3rd of July 2020 “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw ________________________________________ Stock markets charged higher again this week, riding the wave of liquidity and positive sen...
Friday, 29th of May 2020 “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin ________________________________________ Equities have motored higher this week as investor optimism about a possible near-term vaccine builds, and major economies continue to open-up with n...
Friday, 12th of June 2020 “May the wind be always at your back.” – Irish Blessing ________________________________________ Equity markets went into reverse this week as investors finally woke up to the fact that they were flying too close to the sun. Since the US market peaked on Monday,...
Friday, 5th of June 2020 “An ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.” – Jose Ortega y Gasset ________________________________________ Markets have continued to roar higher this week, despite the dire economic backdrop, a poisoning of US-China relations over...
