2018 was a challenging year for investors with volatility rising in particular in the final quarter. This was largely due to increased concerns of a global economic slowdown, unproductive trade…
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UK
The outlook for GDP growth remains muted with the economy still hamstrung by continued Brexit uncertainty. In the third quarter of 2018, business investment contracted for the third consecutive…
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Readers will doubtless be familiar with the concept of Quantitative Easing (QE). It involved the creation of digital money by central banks to buy financial assets, primarily, but not exclusively,…
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John Goodall, our Head of Private Client Research, presents our overviews for the UK, Europe, USA, Japan, Far East, and Emerging markets. UK
GDP growth rebounded in the second quarter…
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The primary goal of the Bank of England is to maintain monetary and financial stability. In the UK, interest rates are set by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), a division…
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Volatility returned to capital markets in October following comments from Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve. He suggested that interest rates are still far away from the neutral rate,…
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John Goodall, Head of Private Client Research
“The US equity markets have continued to perform strongly with both the Standard & Poors 500 Index and the NASDAQ Composite Index close…
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John Goodall from our Research team reviews the second quarter of 2018.
Developed equity markets rebounded in the second quarter, leaving the UK top 100 companies broadly flat for the… Read more →
John Goodall from our Research team presents our overviews for the UK, Europe, USA, Japan, Far East and Emerging Markets.
United Kingdom The economy has experienced a modest bounce, rising… Read more →
Investors with a passing interest in economics will be well aware of the plethora of statistics which are released on a daily basis. Individual statistics say little on their own,…
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