I thought this week I would take a break from global conflict and covid enquiries and focus on some of the areas of the marketplace that...

Appleton Fox Wealth Management Ltd, based in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, has achieved corporate Chartered status from the Chartered...

It was interesting to read this week the comments from Ruchir Sharma, the chair of Rockefeller International, and his views that the...

As we have spoken about with a lot of our clients, the majority of the US equity market return this year has come from just 7 key stocks...

In this earlier than normal weekly update, it is only right that I cover initial implications of the situation unfolding in Israel. The...

Let the battle commence. This week we had the Conservative Party conference and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tried very hard to crank...

As my weekly emails quite often end up focussing on US politics or the US Federal Reserve, I thought I would take a slightly different...

In a week where the US Federal Reserve (Fed) kept interest rates steady, followed by the Bank of England (BoE), the lack of a rate rise...

Equity markets liked what they heard from the European Central Bank (ECB) yesterday, with a 0.25% rate rise being followed by suggestions...

It was interesting to read more this week about another reason for falling profits from retailers – the rise of “shrink”. This is the...

Falling prices in China are adding pressure on policy makers to set up monetary and fiscal support even as signs that the decline is...

UK interest rates rose as expected by 0.25% yesterday and Andrew Bailey explained that this is unlikely to be the last rate rise as the...

It has been quite a week, with the wildfires burning in Europe and North America, Nigel Farage putting the heat on Coutts / Natwest and...

Last week US inflation came in lower than expected and this week it was the turn of the UK to produce a promising reduction from 8.7% to...

Markets had a better time of it this week, mainly on the back of better than expected US inflation figures announced on Wednesday....

There is a popular narrative that many of our woes have been caused by low interest rates, in place since 2008. The birth of crypto and...

The alleged mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group in Russia may have been brief, but it raises fundamental questions about Russian...

This week UK headline inflation remained stubbornly high at 8.7%, yet core inflation (excluding food and energy prices) rose from 6.8% to...

That settles it. It is Beyonce’s fault. Central banks seem very keen to find an excuse that inflation is not their fault, so they must...

I must begin with comment on the further deterioration of events in the Ukraine. The floodwaters from the destruction of Ukraine’s giant...