It’s fair to say that given so much bad news & negativity is splashed across the newswires I for one am thankful for small mercies. And we are entering into the sweet spot of an equity sales traders year, which lasts for just over three months. No, its not rooftop bar season in The City, […]
With Easter fast approaching, it’s one of my favourite times of the year given Easter weekend, plus Christmas Day are two occasions you can officially eat chocolate for breakfast (fact!). There is something about easter egg chocolate, and Mrs Willson is adamant they use a different/nicer recipe, but I feel for those given the remit […]
Whilst not much of a golfer, I found myself watching the final day of The Master’s, and was somewhat intrigued by my ‘red button’ offering of ‘Amen Corner & recap’. Proving everyday is a school day, for those not in ‘the know’ Amen Corner is Augusta’s 11th, 12th & 13th holes that have seen many […]
So there’s no such thing as free money and OBVIOUSLY we don’t encourage gambling here at the Snapshot but one does have to wonder if Ukraine aren’t just worth a little flutter at 2/1 to win next month’s Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy. The Kalush Orchestra holding their first performance of what they will […]
A sobering day really (Stoxx 600 -1.9%) as “Money Saving Expert” Martin Lewis – known for helping people switch their mortgages and car insurance – shifted his focus to a “How to Heat the Human not the Home” guide. Today’s rise in National Insurance in the UK another blow to consumers who are finding things […]
“Plus l’abstention est forte plus les sondages sont faux” I was told by the Eric Cantona of my team in Paris today. I’m pretty sure he even had his collar up. Yes the French elections loom large and whilst opinion polls will tell you Monsieur Macron is a shoe-in for a second term there are […]
“It’s picking off all the people who haven’t had it one by one….there’s no escape” said one of my colleagues somewhat ominously from her Covid bunker last week having finally succumbed to the lurgy. So let the sweepstake begin. 91 hours until the Quick family take the lateral flow test that will allow us to […]
Every morning, as I change tubes at Tott Ct Rd, I walk past an advert for the Magic Mike show that my wife seems quite keen to go to with her friends. And every morning I see the dude’s torso with not an ounce of body fat and I think to myself “Dammit Quick – […]
So we bump somewhat painfully and laboriously over the hump (Stoxx 600 -0.41%). Some (but not all) of yesterdays excitement fizzling out amongst a mind numbing barrage of contradictory headlines. Markets buffering around on the likes of *UKRAINE’S ZELENSKIY SAYS RUSSIA IS SENDING NEW FORCES to a really increasingly meaningless *RUSSIA: UKRAINE PROPOSALS SHOW READINESS […]
One of the original aims of the Snapshot was to try and provide a little bit of light through what were some fairly dark months. Even in the Januaries and the Februaries when things have been properly bleak we’ve tried to stay upbeat. We’re glass-half-full people. But some days the good news takes care of […]