Monday digest
Overview: Slowing growth throws markets into a bindThe upbeat start to the year, where markets kept rising – because bad economic news was actually good news in terms of lessening concerns over future interest rate rises – had to end sooner or...
Goldilocks in the air
Recent macroeconomic data releases across the western world report declining rates of inflation and no longer overheating (but nevertheless still positive) economic growth. In the US, the important milestone of the rate of personal consumption expenditure inflation falling below the interest rate...
Monday digest
Overview: Slowing growth throws markets into a bindThe upbeat start to the year, where markets kept rising – because bad economic news was actually good news in terms of lessening concerns over future interest rate rises – had to end sooner or...
Slowing growth throws markets into a bind
Last week we wrote that markets were rising because bad economic news was good news in terms of lessening concerns over interest rate rises beyond what is already expected and therefore priced in. This week, various economic data releases in the US...
Tatton teaser: Raising Rate of Cyber Crime
Whilst economist scramble to find growth in the global economy and areas to invest in, unfortunately, one thematic area that continues its growth path is Cyber Crime. The latest information from the UK National Cyber Force (NCF) makes grim reading. More than 80%...
Monday digest
Overview: Football fever helps stave off UK recessionThe new year is proving to be a happy one for almost all asset classes and regions. Here in the UK, the FTSE 100 closed on Friday at 7,844 less than 60 points from its...
Football fever saves UK from recession
The new year is proving to be a happy one for almost all asset classes and regions. The FTSE 100’s intraday all-time high of 7903.50 is less than 100 points away at the time of writing, and we’re closer than we were...
Tatton teaser: Housing Costs
Despite the UK economy growing at one of the fastest rates (+4.4%) of the developed economies in 2022, economists have forecast the UK to have a more significant slowdown in growth (-1.5%) than the rest of Europe (-0.1%) in 2023. One of...
January begins full of surprises ; Monday digest
Overview: January begins full of surprisesLast week, a barrage of hit the UK. We can’t have been the only ones left feeling that the UK was off to one of the most subdued starts to a new year we can remember, but...
January surprises
“Welcome to 2023” said the note on the restaurant door. The door was shut, the lights were off, and another note explained that rail strikes meant staff and customers were unable get there. All the venues in this City-of-London street were closed...