Investment briefing
Another quarter, another record-breaking rally for global equities. Despite social restrictions still being imposed by governments across the world in one form or another, stock markets have flourished.
Investment briefing
Towards the end of January, shares in GameStop, an old-school American video games retailer, were driven higher by a cohort of (largely) young day traders looking to make a killing, armed with laptops and furlough cheques.
Investment briefing
The approval of vaccines to counter the misery of COVID-19 has driven equity markets higher into the New Year as a hint of, whisper it, ‘normality’ can be glimpsed on the horizon.
Investment briefing
When Jane Austen wrote ‘Pride and Prejudice’ in 1813, an annual income of £10,000 compared to an average salary of just over 30 pounds. In today’s money, Mr. Darcy’s annual income would have been £10 million. No wonder Mrs. Bennet was so excited!
Investment briefing
The stock market, frequently an enigma, has played a blinder. As countries around the world queue up to report their worst ever falls in economic growth, equities have been rising.
Investment briefing
A pandemic like no other. Governments around the world have been given little choice but to lock down communities to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2, generally referred to as coronavirus.