Friday, 22nd of May 2020 “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” – Voltaire ________________________________________ Investor sentiment was buoyed this week by positive early test results for a coronavirus vaccine under trial at US biotec...
Friday, 15th of May 2020 “A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.” – Oscar Wilde ________________________________________ The recovery rally ran out of steam in the dying days of April, and markets look likely to have peaked in the first two weeks of May. Before the Friday...
Friday, 1st of May 2020 “Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.” – Nasim Taleb ________________________________________ Happy May Day to all our readers! The European spring festival began in ancient Rome, where it was held in honour of Flora, the goddess of flowers. However...
Friday, 24th of April 2020 “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” – Vladimir Lenin ____________________________________ Markets have plateaued this week after experiencing a strong recovery since mid-March. The S&P 500 Index was down -2.7...
Friday, 26th of June 2020 “Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.” – Vladimir Nabokov ________________________________________ Equity markets pushed higher through much of this week, with the notable exception ...
Friday, 3rd of April 2020 “There are three types of lies – lies, damn lies, and statistics.” – Benjamin Disraeli ________________________________________ The first quarter of 2020 will go down as one of the most extraordinary quarters in living memory. At the start of the year, a ...
Friday, 20th of March 2020 “It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.” – Thomas Fuller ________________________________________ There was no let-up in financial market volatility this week as governments around the world introduced draconian new measur...
