Do you remember the end of 1999? New Year’s Eve? Tony Blair trying to sing Old Lang Syne with the Queen? The non-event of the Millennium Bug? The Millennium Dome? There was even the old chestnut of ‘The World Will End’! In the investment world we were so happy then. We had experienced an 18 […]
Economic Review June 2014
Professional investors are rarely happy to sit on the fence. They tend to be optimistic or pessimistic, but it seems that, at the moment, there are an equal number of investors in both camps because, in the past six months, the FTSE100 has moved from around 6,600 to 6,800, only 200 points. The lowest […]
Euro Crisis
Let’s start with a few facts: – Did you know that the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel is due to have a general election by October 2013 at the latest? – Did you know that her party is in a coalition with 2 other parties? – Did you know that most of the German people have […]