Category: Market commentary & Uncategorized
The month got off to a gloomy start, especially if you are a Guardian reader. Five signs the global recovery may be an illusion was the headline on one of its main analysis articles, which pointed out that the world of 2014 was not very dissimilar to the world of 2004 â when (we now realise) it was all starting to go wrong.
Category: Economy & Market commentary & Uncategorized
We started last monthâs bulletin in the Crimea, with Russian troops in de facto control of the peninsula. Well, the Crimea is now part of Russia again and the collected denunciations and threatened sanctions of William Hague, John Kerry and the European foreign ministers will do nothing to change that.
Category: Economy & Investments & Market commentary & Uncategorized
Category: Market commentary & Uncategorized
Category: Autumn Statement & Budget & Market commentary & Uncategorized
Category: Economy & Market commentary & property & Uncategorized
Just when it was all going so wellâŚ
By and large, the news coming out of world financial centres in September was good. In the UK, Jaguar was planning to create 1,700 more jobs and the OECD were revising their growth forecasts upwards. Shares in the US âroared to record levelsâ as the Federal Reserve decided to continue its $85bn a month stimulus plan and in the Far East there was a thaw in North and South Korean relations as the Kaesong industrial complex re-opened.
