Market Updates.

Yesterday’s US CPI inflation came in higher than expected, with the headline rate rising from 0.6% in June to 1.0% in July, while the core reading, […]

This morning’s headlines have been concentrated on the UK’s Q2 GDP data, which showed the UK economy contracted by 20.4%. Although this shouldn’t have come as […]

Just like parents waiting for their children’s A-Level results this week, equity markets have a nervous wait for this week’s review of the Phase 1 US/China […]

While UK equities fell yesterday following the BoE’s monetary policy meeting (please see here) coupled with news that the commodity trader and miner, Glencore, was the latest […]

The BoE’s monetary policy decision, meeting minutes and forecasts were all released at 7am this morning. As expected in a unanimous decision (9-0) the BoE left […]

Good news is hard to find from watching TV or reading the tabloids – and no wonder given the list of negatives, for example:  the recent […]

Global equity markets have started August in a positive mood, with the FTSE-100 closing yesterday (Monday 3 August 2020) up over 130 points, or nearly 2.3% […]

Markets settled lower yesterday as we await the finalisation of a fiscal stimulus package in the US, in addition to Q2 reporting season continuing to be […]

Yesterday was slow in terms of data, and saw markets close out the trading day mixed. Much like the anticipation-driven markets that we saw in the […]

Yesterday was a quiet day for economic data and news, which saw the majority of markets draw breath closing the day marginally lower, driven primarily by […]