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Ian Copelin, Investment Director, my wealth comments “As the Scottish Independence Referendum draws closer, we have had a number of clients becoming increasingly concerned with the […]

Ian Copelin, Investment Director, my wealth comments “The Scottish independence referendum has been the elephant in the room this year.  Markets have been paying too little attention to the referendum, largely […]

Ian Copelin, Investment Director, my wealth comments “Shortly after becoming the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve in 1987, Alan Greenspan once joked with reporters, “Since I’ve […]

The European Central Bank today cut the main refinancing rate from 0.25% to 0.15%.

Global equity markets have today extended last week falls, sending major benchmarks back to levels seen during the first half of December.

Data released today shows that UK unemployment has declined to 7.1%.

The era of low interest rates is shaping up to keep going well into 2015 and potentially beyond.

The Federal Reserve said it will reduce the pace of its monthly bond purchases to $75 billion from $85 billion.

The Dow Jones is currently up 52 points at 16,013, after rising as high as 16,030 shortly after it opened at 2.30pm UK time.

The ECB today cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point to 0.25% (a record low) after Eurozone inflation dropped to an annual rate 0.7% (the slowest pace in four years).