Daily Snapshot

Interesting snippet from the Times here, which states that UK insurance brokers have seen a near tripling in life insurance enquiries and driven by individuals looking to get ahead of Chancellor Reeve’s upcoming inheritance tax reforms which take effect next April. 2024 saw more billionaires created to inheritance rather than entrepreneurship, so its fair to say this is definitely a topical subject at the minute and what caught my attention was the stark disparity in rates across Europe, with S…

Interesting snippet from the Times here, which states that UK insurance brokers have seen a near tripling in life insurance enquiries and driven by individuals looking to get ahead of Chancellor Reeve’s upcoming inheritance tax reforms which take effect next April. 2024 saw more billionaires created to inheritance rather than entrepreneurship, so its fair to say this is definitely a topical subject at the minute and what caught my attention was the stark disparity in rates across Europe, with S…

Interesting snippet from the Times here, which states that UK insurance brokers have seen a near tripling in life insurance enquiries and driven by individuals looking to get ahead of Chancellor Reeve’s upcoming inheritance tax reforms which take effect next April. 2024 saw more billionaires created to inheritance rather than entrepreneurship, so its fair to say this is definitely a topical subject at the minute and what caught my attention was the stark disparity in rates across Europe, with S…

Some hilarious scenes at the Club World Cup final in the MetLife stadium last night, where winners Chelsea were forced to lift the trophy alongside President Trump, who refused to follow UEFA boss Infantino off-camera and instead joined in the glory – much to the players’ clear confusion. To be fair, this probably shouldn’t have been a huge surprise but still made me laugh all the same and adding to the irony was the fact that this happened just after he threatened a 30% tariff on the EU and Me…

Chocolate consumption enhances cognitive function? Not something which I’ve heard before, but a tidy snippet from our latest midweek charts revealed that there is supposedly a powerful correlation between a countries chocolate intake and its number of Nobel Prize recipients! I’m not entirely sure how that works, but it definitely makes me feel less guilty about being incapable of walking away from those Biscoff Dairy Milk bars..

Right well there’s another scorcher on the way, as the UK braces for its third heatwave of the summer and is potentially the most widespread and prolonged yet with forecasts pointing to seven straight days of temperatures exceeding official heatwave criteria. Still time to grab some discounted fans on Amazon Prime – or consider escaping to the west of Ireland which looks to be getting some showers next week (yes – again, getting ridiculous at this point!). Moving on to a different type of warni…

Amazon Prime Day kicks off today, and the only silver lining in an otherwise relatively dull session earlier was that this lull provided a small window to browse what’s on offer and despite some headlines that spending is down -14% compared to last year, I’ve seen a few hidden gems out there so definitely worth taking a look on your commute home! What made today such a snoozefest? Last night, Trump sent out a fresh batch of tariff letters targeting countries that have yet to finalize trade agre…

Headlines of the world’s highest educated food delivery driver caught me off guard earlier given that the story involved a man in China who has went viral on socials somewhat as he was unable to find employment despite degrees from Oxford alongside three top universities in Asia. A pretty intimating insight into China’s job market for sure but hats off to the man himself who remains upbeat as he says his job keeps him fit as he can workout at the same time! Meanwhile, something else which feels…

Well that’s a wrap on Thursday which means two things, a) the weekend is just around the corner and b) our midweek charts has hit the tape with the latest gems including: The S&P just completed its fastest-ever round trip: a 20% drawdown and full recovery to new highs. 90% of all-time highs occur within five days of another. Q2 closed out with the index up 10.6 and historically after a 10% quarter the next is up 85% of the time. On average, the first two weeks of July have been the most bullish…

A cooler temperature this morning was a welcome relief after the sweltering heat which we’ve waded through over the past while and the brief rain shower before lunch may have been a sign of things to come given the waterworks on the display in Westminster today as Chancellor Reeves became probably the first MP brought to tears in Parliament after PM Starmer stopped short of confirming if she’d stay in her post. This followed a pretty sharp blow to Starmer’s authority last night after he was for…