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2018: A Year of Two Halves At the beginning of last year, there was a sense of optimism in financial markets with investors still seeing benefit from the effect of...

Budget Commentary Thanks principally to higher than expected tax receipts, the Chancellor has been able to announce something of a giveaway budget, spending all of the additional income and delaying...

At present, financial markets are dominated by the strong economic growth being achieved by the USA. This in turn has fuelled a gradual, and very likely ongoing, series of increases...

At a global level, investor thinking has been dominated by concerns over Donald Trump’s evidently hostile approach to aspects of global trade, by the impact of the rising US Dollar,...

Introduction The earlier months of 2018 have seen financial markets make only modest progress. In the US, at the time of writing, the SNP 500 has risen slightly over the...