Markets and the public are eagerly anticipating the economic recovery, when last year’s lockdown bust will make way for the post-pandemic boom in growth. A combination of incredibly supportive monetary and fiscal policy, together with a rapid vaccination programme in the UK and US (and now belatedly picking up steam in Europe), has led to…
It has been an astounding few days in the sporting world, and if you don’t want to see the scores, look away now. After a renegade bunch of Europe’s biggest football clubs announced plans to break away to build their own league, only for the whole enterprise to fall apart as quickly as it appeared…
Equity markets finally paused in their upward trend this week, with the most speculative assets like Bitcoin experiencing their first serious setback since February. It was hard to pin the cause on any one specific development, although falling oil prices got their share of blame. The earnings season was certainly not at fault, with reported…