26th September 22
Financial markets have experienced a turbulent, bruising few days as central banks took action to counter uncomfortably high inflation, overnight interest rates were hiked in Norway, Sweden, Swi...
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24th August 22
How to stop worrying about what markets may or may not do... One of the members of our Community shared a piece with the rest of the group quoting an investment bank's chief equity strategist...
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10th August 22
Further Observations by Eric Chalker, July 25, 2022 Introduction I belong to an investor organisation called SIGnet – Serious Investor Group network . At my group meetin...
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18th July 22
Our previous blog four months ago “ Batten down the hatches ” now seems aptly titled as Russia’s military incursion into the Ukraine and the economic consequences (notably ac...
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18th March 22
Russia’s military incursion into the Ukraine and the economic consequences (notably the spike up in energy prices) has not just replaced the Covid infection as the focus of global media an...
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21st February 22
Last week a good friend – let’s call him Fred - told me that he had accepted redundancy and, for the first time in his life had some capital, was wondering what to do with his good f...
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6th January 22
The hope the Covid infection, with its adverse economic consequence, would be receding by the end of 2021 has been confounded. The Omicron variant appears to be a particularly virulent, if milde...
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24th September 21
Investor sentiment seems to be changing as equity markets’ ‘risk on’ momentum appears to be slowing – notably on concerns that the authorities begin to pare back their fi...
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11th August 21
Today I thought I might spend a little time discussing various different ways you can invest in gold (and silver) since many people have been in touch to ask about this very topic recently. A...
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10th August 21
The answer may surprise you. Gold I have had a reasonable number of questions of late about precious metals and, in particular, how to go about buying them if so inclined, so thought it ...
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6th August 21
Regular readers of these articles will be aware of an ongoing and oft-repeated theme of mine: Namely that, to a certain degree at least, you can run your financial affairs so that you shouldn&rs...
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5th August 21
Smaller Companies (AKA “small caps”)… One asset class that I have written about before and that has a long track record of producing average annual returns quite some way n...
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4th August 21
Why Read Finance Books? As part of your ‘own the world’ journey we believe that the information required to make useful and lasting change in our lives can very often be found in ...
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3rd August 21
I previously highlighted four beliefs many people hold when it comes to finance which I suggested simply weren’t true. These were: “You can’t go wrong with bricks and morta...
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14th July 21
Prices have increased more in June than in any other time since 2008, as inflation continues to run rampant in the US. The year on year increase for June came in at 5.4%, higher than the already...
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12th July 21
HR experts have said that 35% of employees in the UK have requested today off, and after the Italian Job, who can blame them. England were brutally defeated in familiar fashion by Italy in a pen...
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9th July 21
The UK economy is growing, largely being propped up by the hospitality sector, as retail sales, pubs and restaurants all were the major contributors to the 0.8% growth we saw in May from April. ...
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8th July 21
Productivity is expected to be lower in the UK this morning, following the nerve shredding 120 minute match with Denmark last night. No doubt beer sales will have hit a post pandemic peak in the...
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7th July 21
The Office for Budget Responsibility has been crunching some numbers, which Rishi Sunak is going to want to take note of: In their biannual fiscal report, the OBR have said that an extra &poun...
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6th July 21
“Freedom Day” as Boris Johnson profoundly announced, is on the horizon, and it is nothing short of freedom. In a press conference at No10 last night, the Prime Minister finally hos...
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