An important morning spent teaching my daughters what the right ratio of Twiglet to KP Salted Peanut is for the ideal Christmas snack combination (answer is 7 peanuts per 2 mini-twiglets – trust me) which may tell you a little bit about volumes (withering on the vine) and mood (improving / getting more Christmassy). This […]
Well what a grumpy start to the week that was. This is supposed to be a week of cheer and merriment and holly and jolly but there’s not much of that around at the moment as nearest and dearest continue to report that they’ve succumbed to the lurgy and those that haven’t yet feel it […]
So it was the hot item of Winter 2020 that has gotten a lot rustier in the nine months it hasn’t been used but it’s BACK. Not the exercise back I got but the firepit that has cost me approximately £65 per use so far finally looking set to start bringing the value as work […]
So is this BoJo’s last stand? It’s the North Shropshire by-election tomorrow – a seat the Conservatives have never lost and where they last had a 23,000 majority – and the bookies have them neck and neck with the LibDems and scrambling. Political wags speculating that Labour are campaigning hard to disrupt the LibDem vote […]
January around the corner and for me that means shedding those unwanted kilos that I’ve picked up in December throughout the rest of the year. I’m yet to be convinced by Peloton, but their latest advertisement rebuff to the ‘And just like that’ storyline which saw their stock fall >10% has reminded us all the […]
“Can no-one organize anything any more? I might just move to Mars” said one of my team grumpily today as another mis-step got added to the growing list of buffoonery from those in charge. The Champions League draw having to be entirely redone after a “technical problem with the software”. Whoopsie. Real Madrid v PSG […]
A Tuesday rally which peaked on Wednesday and finished a little tired and jaded on a Friday. Me or the market – you decide. The answer of course is – ahem – the market (Stoxx 600 -0.3%) but overall this was a decent week. The FTSE up 2.38% over the 5 days, the Stoxx 600 […]
Excitement in the air here ahead of our Christmas party tonight. Much angst over whether to go ahead with it or not but we’re a democratic firm and the vote (the most-responded-to-poll in Redburn history) overwhelmingly in favour of cracking on with it. Let’s get endemic baby. Today was a calmer, more measured session (Stoxx […]
Lack of direction and no clear ideas … and that’s just the England Cricket team. Cheap shot I know but the wind certainly out of their sails overnight and the market struggling a little today too albeit after a monster two day move to the upside. Headlines all a bit bearish on the UK Covid […]
What a day that was. Yesterday’s nibble in the market followed by a full blown all-sector pop as fears that Omicron could put the recovery in doubt almost completely subsided and the markets behaving, well, more like we’re used to. Powell’s hawkish comments around the Thanksgiving holiday also been pushed into the “not that bothered […]