This month our commentary is from Standard Life Wealth:
You may have read a lot in the news wires recently about ‘currency wars’ and so we felt it may be useful to put some context around this, with regard to what is happening in the world currently. The catalyst for much of the recent discussion was the election of a new government and Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, in Japan in December 2012. The new government has been ...
Continue Reading →It was a sign of the times that the first official word on George Osborne’s Autumn Statement was a tweet from his boss. David Cameron told his 178,514 followers on Twitter: We are on the right track and making progress. His previous tweet had intimated that the Chancellor would announce further investment in education, but the general mood among commentators awaiting the Statement was far less upbeat.
With the world economy still in the doldrums and Europe in its ...
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This month’s article comes from Full Circle Asset Management (www.fullcircleasset.co.uk) :
On 31st August, all eyes turned to Jackson Hole where Ben Bernanke was scheduled to speak following the annual meeting of world finance chiefs. Some market commentators hinted at a surprise announcement of a further round of quantitative easing, in a re-run of his 2010 speech, which triggered a six month equity rally.
However, there was no surprise this time: ...
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