So I was admonished by my daughters this weekend when I described MYSELF as OCD. Apparently you can no longer say that about yourself unless you’ve been formally diagnosed as OCD as otherwise it undermines all those who HAVE been diagnosed as OCD. Keep up Quicky. Anyway all I know for certain is that if […]
So every Friday one of my favourite clients (you’re all my favourite really…) sends me a Friday tune to mark the end of the week. He’s having a bit of a trendy phase right now (new younger girlfriend etc) so he’s been peppering me with bands I’ve basically never heard of. What he actually should […]
Blood rain, thunderstorms and then bright blue skies. It’s changeable out there. Today was a May day which felt like the middle of August in all honesty. Recent trading sessions have been increasingly choppy and, as one seasoned professional sighed today, it’s hard not to become immune to what are huge price moves. This could […]
Hump day is based on the idea that the work week is a mountain one must climb – this mountain feels quite high at the moment and I’m out of breath. On the 26th April the Snapshot featured ‘Cash on the Side-lines’ and since then the broader European equity market is down 160bps with that […]
Alright pens down. Make reading the Snapshot the last bit of work you do today. It’s time to do an over-exaggerated stretch, look at your watch, say “right then” out loud to nobody in particular and start packing up. Go and enjoy the sunshine. Don’t worry – the boss won’t do much. The workers are […]
Ceci n’est pas un snapshot. Sometimes when there’s nothing to say, you’re better off saying nothing. I could take the Courteney approach from last Thursday of course and write an entire Snapshot before forgetting to send it out (I think he might be a tad tired…) but – to be honest – with the Stoxx […]
Checking the out of office replies on today’s Snapshot and looking for “Is out the office for the foreseeable as I’ve won £184m.” Good on you if you were the winner, I would hope you wouldn’t be reading the Snapshot and if there was ever an advert for the lucky dip it was the numbers […]
So I’m not prone to giving life advice but I do advise you to be extremely careful when you type “seismic shifts” in any write-up. One of our sales team missed out the all-important F in an email a few years ago and still shudders at the memory (although he did get an uptick in […]
A new pandemic sweeping the Redburn office (and possibly most of the UK) today as hayfever sufferers announced themselves loudly (and possibly over-dramatically?) to those around them. All sorts of sympathetic words of advice being issued by fellow sneezers but the key one would appear to be a quick trip to Boots to load up […]
Uh-oh. It’s a Snapshot on a Friday. No one reads the Snapshot on a Friday. You hadn’t even noticed we don’t do them on a Friday. Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything. We don’t do Snapshots on a Friday unless there’s been a Meaningful-Move-In-The-Market and today we definitely got that. The Stoxx 600 tumbling 1.91% […]