Economic focus
18 September 2020
Markets have been undimmed by the recent rise in positive Covid-19 cases – particularly in America.
12 June 2020
It was American President, Harry S Truman who coined a phrase to describe the difference between a recession and economic depression.
11 March 2020
While China has been taking action both to limit the spread of the disease and to minimize the impact on its economy, with companies like Apple warning of direct consequences for its trading outlook…
10 December 2019
Indeed, so far as economic forecasting is concerned, you might consider it more an art than science.True, there is a positive cornucopia of data for economists to sift through in order to come up with…
19 September 2019
Some thirteen years ago, having left the bank that had taken over the firm for which I had worked, I broadened my reading to take in research from a wide variety of new (to me) sources. One Swiss…
20 June 2019
A distinguished panel, which comprised the BBC Security Correspondent, Frank Gardner, a senior ex-police officer who had been involved in Counter Terrorism, an American lawyer specialising in…
15 March 2019
X But the difference today is that there is no single issue on which one can focus to try to determine what likely outcomes might arise. Rather, there are a variety of areas where sufficient…
11 December 2018
Take technology as an example. The largest companies in the world are now the technology giants that play an ever increasing role in our daily lives. The impact that technology has upon economic…
25 September 2018
While investors in the US have been buoyed by impressive economic growth and low unemployment, other parts of the world have been less sanguine over the effects of the President’s actions. Emerging…
20 June 2018
Yet in June last year it had fallen to within a whisker of $40 a barrel, while last May it flirted – admittedly briefly – with $80. True, you may well have noticed that the price of fuel at the pump…
26 February 2018
While shares calmed swiftly, it unnerved many investors who were concerned at the trigger for this sudden correction. Behind the slump in sentiment was some payroll data from the US that suggested…
5 December 2017
His insight into what was going on around the world and how it might impact on markets was useful to me, now that I no longer could ask the in-house research team what was likely to happen. Better…
11 September 2017
True, governments and consultancies run computer models designed to predict likely outcomes as a result of policy decisions, but we can never be certain to any reasonable degree what the future might…
12 June 2017
There will be a general election here shortly, to be followed by some serious Brexit negotiations, the Trump administration appears in serious disarray, debt around the world could be stoking up…
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