2025 So that’s the first week of January done and it feels good to say that doesn’t it. Courteney not really catching the Veganuary detox vibe as he heads to Leeds for his mates stag do and the Otley Run but that’s sort of the point if you’re young isn’t it. Christmas was for protecting […]
2025 Four days into the trading year and we’ve a spread of 12% already between the best performing sector (Autos +7.65%) and the worst performing sector (Technology -4.36%). Value a fourth consecutive day of outperformance vs Growth and now a +5% relative move there. I mean. I’m all for sitting on the sidelines and waiting […]
2025 A more settled day unless you’re one of the 5 million yet-to-be-vaccinated French adults who were told by their President this morning that he intends to “emmerde” them (hint – thats not a positive) until they get the jab. An interesting approach to “Liberté” from Monsieur Macron as the posturing starts for what could […]
2025 Happy New Year and How Was Your Christmas and Did-You-Get-Covid-Oh-Dear-I’m-Sorry-To-Hear-That etc etc. It’s good to be back. Let’s smash 2022. Mrs Q’s birthday today which typically finds me regretting not tactically holding back a Christmas present or two and scrambling around to find something that doesn’t obviously look like it’s been slashed 90% in […]
2025 An important morning spent teaching my daughters what the right ratio of Twiglet to KP Salted Peanut is for the ideal Christmas snack combination (answer is 7 peanuts per 2 mini-twiglets – trust me) which may tell you a little bit about volumes (withering on the vine) and mood (improving / getting more Christmassy). […]
2025 Well what a grumpy start to the week that was. This is supposed to be a week of cheer and merriment and holly and jolly but there’s not much of that around at the moment as nearest and dearest continue to report that they’ve succumbed to the lurgy and those that haven’t yet feel […]
2025 So it was the hot item of Winter 2020 that has gotten a lot rustier in the nine months it hasn’t been used but it’s BACK. Not the exercise back I got but the firepit that has cost me approximately £65 per use so far finally looking set to start bringing the value as […]
2025 So is this BoJo’s last stand? It’s the North Shropshire by-election tomorrow – a seat the Conservatives have never lost and where they last had a 23,000 majority – and the bookies have them neck and neck with the LibDems and scrambling. Political wags speculating that Labour are campaigning hard to disrupt the LibDem […]
2025 “Can no-one organize anything any more? I might just move to Mars” said one of my team grumpily today as another mis-step got added to the growing list of buffoonery from those in charge. The Champions League draw having to be entirely redone after a “technical problem with the software”. Whoopsie. Real Madrid v […]
2025 A Tuesday rally which peaked on Wednesday and finished a little tired and jaded on a Friday. Me or the market – you decide. The answer of course is – ahem – the market (Stoxx 600 -0.3%) but overall this was a decent week. The FTSE up 2.38% over the 5 days, the Stoxx […]