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Global Market Overview – August 2021 August has been a quiet, but good, month for markets, and 2021 continues to be a bumper year. Although the delta variant put some question marks over our social lives, markets aren’t really worried about it. As we’ve said before, all-time highs shouldn’t usually be a cause for celebration […]

Global Market Overview – July 2021  July was a reminder that there are still a lot of unsettled issues which the financial world is trying to price. Fears and freedom are increasing together. Different variants of COVID-19 are still very much a problem – especially for countries with low numbers of vaccinations. At the same […]

Global Market Overview – June 2021 June has been somewhat of an emotional whirlwind in UK domestic politics. On 14 June, we found out that we would have to wait another four weeks for full post-lockdown freedom. Two days later, Dominic Cummings released WhatsApp conversations in which Boris Johnson branded Health Secretary Matt Hancock as […]

Global Market Overview – May 2021 The media found a new worry in May as the Indian variant took over newspapers. With all headlines, especially COVID-related ones, it’s important to remember that the goal of a journalist isn’t always to produce useful and informative news; it might be to write something that will sell. We […]

Global Market Overview – April 2021 During the first month of Q2, headlines have been a complete mix of good, bad, and hysterical. The increase in COVID deaths and cases through the developing world have been tragic. And unfortunately, it’s more than likely that the numbers in places such as India will get worse before […]