An emerging scandal here today as it turns out that Courteney is heading out to the Redburn Young Guns Night and a quick trawl through my inbox suggests that I’m NFI’d. Surely thinking you’re still under 30 is the same as being under 30. I bet most of them haven’t even seen the movie. Oh […]
“Just hand over the world chaps – we’ll sort it out”, tweeted stand-up comic Jenny Éclair today on International Women’s Day and one does have to wonder if we’d be in this mess if there weren’t a few more women on hand to sort it all out. All sorts of testosterone flying about the place […]
Alright – hands up if you added a few extra “cupboard” items to the weekly shopping over the weekend. A few extra pasta sauces and baked beans. Who had a quick check of the torch batteries? The weekend press prompting plenty of contingency planning from my nearest and dearest and I am definitely not gonna […]
Lock up your wives, husbands bartenders – it’s the first Redburn sales trader team night out in over two years tonight. Attendees from Paris, Madrid and New York all revved up and – thanks to the Tube strike – absolutely delighted to walk to Shoreditch for a game of shuffleboard. Yes….we know how to rally […]
Another Zoom parents evening tonight. One of the more positive legacies of the pandemic and to be honest we do occasionally need reminding in this country that Covid ever happened with the shift in focus away from it understandable but perhaps a shade hasty. Our healthcare team out with what initially felt very much like […]
A boycott we can all get behind as multiple countries look to remove vodka from their shelves. Filthy stuff. Unless it’s in a Bloody Mary. Or a Moscow Mule. Or a martini at the Dukes Hotel. Mmmmm. Anyway – another day where a drink at the end of it might be appropriate (Stoxx 600 -2.37%) […]
Back from a poorly timed but muy muy bien trip to see the (super cool) Madrid clients armed with Jamon Ruffles (surely contender for Top 3 crisp if not GOAT) and some new phrases. Poco a poco perhaps the best advice from someone there who knows how important it is to slow down and not […]
Tricky to comment on a week like the one we’ve just had. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a very sombre moment in recent European history and it makes voicing opinions on market moves feel quite incongruous. Political experts are largely absent and unlikely to be able to predict the path and markets are trying […]
I think we’ve all found ourselves trying our hand as political experts over the past week or so but it seems to me the broader market is missing some key points of view and opinions which are usually readily found on other topics such as rate paths and inflation. Truth is no-one knows, but I […]
So it’s 22022022 today and if that doesn’t appeal to my (huge/getting worse) OCD then I don’t know what does. Arguably worth staying up til 22.00.22 tonight but that feels unlikely as I still adjust to the 5.15am alarm clock five days a week. Markets getting the even-keel vibe (Stoxx 600 +0.07%) despite a start […]