Capping off an altogether mixed week, FTSE indexes finished Friday with a slump, having decided to go into the weekend with the prospect of a No-Deal Brexit as the main takeaway. Down by 0.80%, the FTSE 100 reversed its mid-week gains and finished at 6,546 points, just shy of where it began on Monday. Meanwhile, […]

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Sterling broke on a bad note on Thursday morning after the highly-anticipated talks between UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen failed to culminate in a Brexit trade deal. Although an agreement to continue negotiating has reportedly been reached, hopes of a deal are becoming slimmer by the moment, […]

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One of the first things you’re taught in international relations class is the school of neorealism, which posits that the international system exists in a state of anarchy, with all states vying for the greatest share of power. Each state’s share of power is relative and determined by their distribution of capabilities – military, economic, […]

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I can already picture the excited hand gestures from POTUS Donald Trump as he lauds the Dow Jones success story on Thursday. The index hit 29,200 points, beating the record set the day before and exceeding the 29,100 projection set by analysts before trading began. This followed yesterday’s completion of phase one of the US-China […]

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Following a protracted session of posturing and taunts, the ‘phase one’ of the US-China trade deal was signed on Wednesday. This was met with a measured reaction from most, except the Dow Jones, which hit 29,000 points for the first time in its history. Despite the giddiness of this news having already been priced into […]

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In a day lacking a wow factor, global equities opted for tentative gains following the opening of the US market on Tuesday afternoon. We can offer something of a half-hearted celebration for this news, given that we started off the day with modest losses and ended up checking out in the green. In spite of […]

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The time is 12:30 on Thursday the 12th of December. I tell my colleague to bet on cable, shorting the pound until 20:00 – election day is always jittery. The time comes to 21:50, moments before the exit poll. I tell him to back Sterling with everything he’s got, he doesn’t, and minutes later I […]

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The POTUS with a penchant for Twittering sent markets into a late session frenzy, which was led by the Dow Jones hitting an all-time high. Donald Trump gave indices another glimmer of hope with a Tweet on Thursday afternoon, declaring that a trade deal with China was close at hand. Getting VERY close to a […]

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Investors spent most of the Tuesday session fretting about the absence of any phase one movement towards a trade agreement between the US and China. However, their worries were somewhat – though not completely – tempered by a report from the Wall Street Journal, which said that both sides were attempting to build foundations to […]

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The turbulent start to December was led by the usual suspects of 2019 market uncertainty, and Thursday saw the US-China trade war saga take its next turn. After a frenzied start to the week, markets collected themselves as China’s ministry of commerce made an announcement – a ‘phase one’ of any potential deal would be […]

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Without actually making much progress towards resolution, the Sino-US trade war debacle was able to eek out a sliver of positivity for indices clamouring for a shred of good news. With its high position on president Trump’s order paper looking under threat – with domestic political engagements vying for his attention – any substantive movement […]

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Markets have finally given in to realism and assumed a stance of limited optimism in regard to any potential Sino-US trade deal. After appearing to happily chase the story in regard to trade war and tariff progress over the last few months, markets now seem ready to concede that any friendly chatter between the two […]

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