In the UK, economic news was generally positive in October. Retail sales were up significantly by 1.9%, in a sign of continuing consumer spending power. Disposable income passed previous highs, now being above pre-2008 levels. Manufacturin ...
Investment markets continued to be volatile during September, with the third quarter of 2015 seeing the worst quarterly performance for four years. Returns of the major indices are shown below: Q3 20 ...
The market volatility caused by the so-called ‘Great Fall of China’ has grabbed attention during August and we issued a separate note on Monday 24 August in relation thereto. In summary, the market in China had experienced rapi ...
Recently, several institutions have been embarrassed after details of their investment holdings were revealed. For example, the Church of England was, after a speech by the Archbishop of Canterbury criticizing payday loans, revealed to hav ...
July was a volatile month in the markets. In the middle of the month, there was concern as we saw drops in many major markets. However, across developed markets the month has actually been positive: the Top UK 100 Companies is up 2.69 ...