2025 Well that was a rollercoaster of a day. Ups. Downs. The occasional glimpse into the abyss. A post lunch slump then a rally to the highs. And that was just me. I’d sort of forgotten what it was like to have a hangover but today served as a very sharp reminder of the pain […]
2025 Okay so that’s enough of all that nonsense. Meat-free, booze free January set to come to a juddering halt tonight with a trip to Hawksmoor. Quite an aggressive way to end it I’ll admit but my Head of Trading and Product Development wants to try the Monday night £5 corkage offer and tbh one […]
2025 A quieter day for markets as we waited to see if World War 3 would indeed break out meant a day spent organizing trips. Business travel is back baby. Geneva first then Madrid then Paris. The return to normal (and the office) continues and markets reflecting that today as airlines caught a bid (Lufthansa […]
2025 A day full of surprises but most notable for how normal it felt. Earnings aplenty with the beats being rewarded and the misses penalised. Big research calls from some of our best teams. Volume in the market and some decent block crosses. A bit of M&A. A bit of life back in the City. […]
2025 I’d typically start with “Not a good day to be a hamster in Hong Kong” but I’m not sure hamsters have days where they’re like “I’m so glad I’m in Hong Kong”. One of the more bizarre headlines to start off the trading day as Bloomberg revealed the HK authorities were in the process […]
2025 Blue Monday today but that may have been more about describing the colour of the sky than people’s moods with a glorious day in London and plenty to still be optimistic about (Stoxx 600 +0.7%). The lifting of Omicron restrictions front and centre of people’s minds with Plan B set to be reviewed next […]
2025 You may have a view about what the best thing on telly is at the moment but unless you agree that it’s The Rescue then you’re wrong. The documentary about the 13 lads who got trapped in caves in Thailand comfortably what made us cry-laugh the most over Christmas and what’s really striking is […]
2025 A slight distraction from markets first thing this morning as my usually serene 13 year old daughter sobbed her eyes out to the point of not being able to breath. Had a close relative died you may wonder? A family pet? Unfortunately the drama was because I’d halved her screen time allowance on Snapchat […]
2025 So while Boris waits on the outcome of an enquiry ordered by Boris to establish whether Boris attended a party in Boris’s garden in the height of lockdown the rest of us sit and wait for tomorrow’s CPI and the outcome of both surely inevitable. The first major inflation metric of the year expected […]
2025 Day Ten of a meat-free, booze-free, appraisal-full January and the question surely is “If it feels like it’s been a month, can we call it a month?”. Concentration, discipline and nerve required and the same could be said for navigating markets where everyone feels very much on the same side of the boat as […]