The attempt by an army of private investors to “take on the big guys” seems to have fizzled out, with the last purchasers of GameStop on Friday 29th January now nursing losses of over 70%. So much for democratising investment. There …
After a strong start to 2021, global equities posted a small decline for January after experiencing a 3% fall over the last week. Headlines have been dominated by news of retail investors grouping together on social media platform Reddit to …
Global stock markets continued to rise last week, with the FTSE World Index ahead by 1.6%. The US market rose by 2% but technology stocks fared even better. FAANG companies Netflix, Apple and Facebook saw their share prices rise by …
Veteran investor Jeremy Grantham believes that the long bull market in the US has now developed into a fully-fledged bubble. We have seen many investment bubbles throughout history, the most recent being the dot-com boom just over twenty years ago …
Global equity markets had a significantly positive start to 2021, including the US which stole the headlines given the Democrats’ win of the two available Senate seats and the dramatic events that followed. The Democrat’s victory sparked a controversial protest …
Last year closed with good news and bad news. The positives were a trade deal between the UK and EU, thus avoiding automatic tariffs on a wide range of goods, as well as the signing of a new coronavirus relief …
Global equity markets were mostly up last week, with the US posting another series of all-time highs on Thursday. Optimism about vaccine rollout and signs that the long-awaited US stimulus package was about to be signed off contributed to the …
Having been led to believe that Sunday was the deadline for talks between the UK and EU to either agree or disagree the terms of a Brexit trade deal, we now find that the deadline was merely to decide whether …
At the time of writing (Tuesday 8th December a.m.) there is still no agreement on a trade deal between the UK and the EU. Time is fast running out, but it is expected that we will find out fairly soon. …
As November closes out, it looks as though the month will have delivered some of the best returns ever from equities. At the time of writing, the FTSE World Index is up over 13%, with most major markets generating double …