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This week we have been watching and listening to various global Chief Executive Officers (CEO’s) talking about their companies and the...

The UK weather is back to its unpredictable best, but with concerns growing about domestic energy supply, it was very interesting to read...

I am delighted to take my first opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year, I do hope you had an enjoyable Christmas break. For those of...

Christmas is around the corner, but it seems, for now, that a pause in interest rate rises is not yet upon us. We remain in a...

As our minds start to focus on yet another round of inflation data and central bank rate rises in the coming week, our current thoughts...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Budget appears to have gone down rather well with global markets as the cost of buying UK debt has steadily...

As there has not been a significant change in market direction this week, I thought I would instead focus on the COP27 summit in Egypt....

When Jeremy Hunt stood up at 11:30am yesterday he had three main objectives. Firstly, to restore credibility in the UK and to reassure...

I wonder when we will get a quiet week with no news of note to report on and I can instead write about England’s fantastic semi final...

Liz Truss has taken her place in history, for the time being, as the shortest serving UK Prime Minister, and Rishi Sunak has already...

Market focus returned this week to two major interest rate announcements from the US Federal Reserve (FED) and the Bank of England (BOE)....

When I wrote to you last Friday, we were expecting a new Prime Minister by the end of this week, and a fiscal statement from our...

Five minutes after we sent last weeks email, Kwasi Kwarteng was gone as chancellor, to be replaced by Jeremy Hunt. Now as I write, within...

Markets are jumping on any good news and as Kwasi Kwarteng flies back early from the US where he was attending the International Monetary...

Over the year to date, it has felt at times like the headlines each and every day are filled with bad news and our trading screens are...

A week is a long time in politics, or so the saying goes. I am sure Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss may well agree. It seems a long time...

The focus of markets this week returned to the central banks attempts to slow inflation, with the US Federal Reserve certainly being the...

Before I return to politics and inflation, I wanted to take a further moment to pay our tribute to Britain’s longest reigning monarch,...

As we come to terms with the very sad news of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, I believe we can afford to take a week away from the day...

My apologies that once again my weekly email is dominated by comments from major central bankers on their interest rate policy. The US...