“SNAP back”…. Was the chosen title of this week’s “knowledge share,” article, chosen to coincide with the debut of the latest tech-darling’s initial public offering, whilst “subtlety” trying to join up the dots in respect of identifying market bubbles, including possible tops. The pace of the labelled “Trump rally,” co-incidental that it is to the […]
Impeachment…..Is defined as a charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office and they do not get any higher in the United States of America than the office of The President. The airwaves and financial talk-shops are abuzz today following the allegation that President “the Donald” Trump asked the former FBI Director […]
When Harold Wilson commenced his first stint as the British Labour Party Prime Minister in 1964, he inherited an unusually large external deficit on the balance of trade from the Conservative administration and despite fighting the markets for a couple of years, the inevitable devaluation of the £GBP came in 1967, when Wilson famously assured […]
“793”…… Global merger and acquisition (M&A) deals have been completed this year as of the end of April 2017, according to “dialogic” who collates the data involving publicly traded corporations. This is 20% lower than the comparable period of 2016 and is the lowest number since 1998, which given that stock and bond markets are […]
French voters face a stark choice in Sunday’s presidential election between joining the wave of populism that has swept across the European and American political landscape over the past year or an attempt to renew the governing principles that have guided their country for decades, albeit via a 39-year-former untested Socialist turned Centrist. With the […]
“3% annualised GDP”…… Is the expectation/hope/dream set out by the new US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin this week, as he and his fellow ex-Goldman Sachs colleague and now White House chief economic advisor Gary Cohn, set out “the biggest tax reform in American history.” Tax cuts, set to slash corporate rates from 35% to […]
“7th May 2020”…… was to be the date of the UK’s next General Election, in line with the fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. However, the British Prime Minister, Teresa May, called for an 8th June 2017 snap election this week and was backed by the two-thirds majority required from the 650 MPs in the House of […]
Just nine months after British Prime Minister David Cameron resigned, following his failed “gamble” on calling a referendum on EU membership, his successor Teresa May announced a snap election decision this week, to be held on the 8th June 2017, mercifully only 7 short-weeks from today and despite her denying any plans for an early […]
“Liquidity”…… is defined as a measure or extent to which a person or organisation has cash to meet immediate and short-term obligations, or assets that can be quickly converted to cash to do this. Put another way, it’s the life-blood of the markets without which they cease-up. There are numerous clues to assist in […]
In the late February overview, “¥en, a Desire to Watch Closely,” the message was “if ever there is a time to keep a very close eye on the ¥en, or more importantly the $US/¥ cross-rate, it’s now.” At the time the cross rate was 112.5 with four charts outlining the close correlation of the $US/¥ […]
“Rock On”…… is a song written by British singer/songwriter David Essex and recorded in 1973 shortly before a UK referendum took the nation into the European Union. In the week when “Article 50,” the process by which member states may withdraw from the EU, was triggered by the British Prime Minister, “Rock,” hit the news […]
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“SNAP back”…. Was the chosen title of this week’s “knowledge share,” article, chosen to coincide with the debut of the latest tech-darling’s initial public offering, whilst “subtlety” trying to join up the dots in respect of identifying market bubbles, including possible tops. The pace of the labelled “Trump rally,” co-incidental that it is to the already mass of anecdotal market evidence that scream “overvalued,” such as excessive valuations; extreme bullish sentiment readings; historic lows of cash held within stock mutual-funds and excessive use of leverage, has been phenomenal, a 3285 point Dow surge since the 4th November, which has taken out the 20,000 Dow round number only to see 21,000 hit just 22-trading days later. This market analyst actually expected a market turn to accompany “the Donald’s” first speech to the US Congress on Wednesday evening, but the master-presenter managed to tone down his usual rhetoric and tell both houses what they wanted to hear, such as the campaign commitments to a $1,000,000,000,000 of infrastructure spend, without quite saying just how it will be funded. So another day and a further 300 Dow points later along came SNAP. Whilst one down day doesn’t mean that much, it will be interesting to see if the Dow points disappear just as quickly as snapchat pics!
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