2025 Unstable and unbalanced. Not just my family as we get hit with a bout of the Worst Cold Ever that’s been going around but the phrase used by a Chinese government spokesman today to describe the domestic economic recovery as it shows signs of slowing down. I’d say that’s as good an expression as […]
2025 “Bits and bobs”. That’s the most common phrase this week when one of the bosses has wandered over and asked if there’s much going on. Bits and bloomin’ bobs. God this is boring. What happened to Big Move Monday and Turnaround Tuesday and Super Earnings Thursday? We’re back to the bump and grind higher […]
2025 So it’s The October club tonight. The great and the good from the asset management and stockbroking industries plus yours truly. More grey hair than a Vera Lynn concert historically but great efforts being made by the Committee to bring the average age down and stay relevant and over the years they have done […]
2025 So the official advice from Camelot for if you win tonight’s £184m Euromillions jackpot is to “have a cup of tea with fellow winners to get the best advice”. I’m not going to lie to you – that will not be first on my To-Do list. A day for dreaming and planning really with […]
2025 Languishing somewhere in a North London charity shop is a pair of lilac denim shorts that I bought in an unsupervised moment of madness last summer. Yes lilac. And yes denim. They looked properly cool on the ASOS guy but slightly – ahem – less cool on me. One look from Mrs Q and […]
2025 A small glow of nostalgia as I write today’s Snapshot because I’m starting it at 16.39 and making it up by the seat of my pants. What does that mean other than a complete lack of professionalism? Well it’s like the busier, buzzier days of last year when markets actually moved (Stoxx 600 +1.6%) […]
2025 A little bit of tension in the Quick household at the moment over whether the heating can go on yet. On one hand under official Northern rules it’s allowable as we’re now in October but on the other hand I noticed yesterday that I’ve just ten days left of my fixed tariff with Octopus […]
2025 One of the great joys of more regularly going to the office is the amount of time you can spend as a team discussing what you’re going to have a for lunch. From the dark days of a cheese toastie on your own all of a sudden you’re back in a world of sushi […]
2025 Well in the series of scandals that we have going on right now – The Pandora Papers, various Fed members’ antics etc – there can surely be none bigger than the fact that someone decided to make today National Taco Day. On a Monday. Is there no shame. Everyone knows Tacos are for Tuesday. […]
2025 The first day of each of the last three quarters has seen the Stoxx 600 +0.67% in Q1, +0.61% in Q2 and +0.62% in Q3. A clean slate, a fresh start. Promise. Positivity. Today we got very little of that (Stoxx 600 -0.42%) as more companies warned over supply chain issues (AO World tumbling […]