Daily Snapshot

So with a bit of luck this is the last non-Thirsty Thursday. Meeting up outside allowed from Monday and things on track to improve from there as we’re now just 52 days from the pubs being properly open and 88 days away from beers anywhere, with anyone. Looking at the 13th straight day of no move bigger than 1% (Stoxx 600 -0.07%) you could be forgiven for thinking there wasn’t much going on but there’s always something going on and today it came from the very left field.

Well it was an exciting day if you’re the captain of the Ever Given container ship but this was another forgettable day generally. Markets seeing their twelfth day in a row of a move of less than +/- 1% and it’s going to take more than a blockage of one of the world’s busiest trade routes to shake things up. A sign of the world w