It’s fair to say the UK’s UK 100 has essentially brushed aside the Brexit fears that gripped it on the day the UK voted to leave. However it’s been driven back up by the big defensive stocks and some multinationals which have enjoyed FX translation benefits since they conduct a lot of their business in…
Back here again, already? Time does fly when you’re having fun. Only two weeks since the Brexit vote, major US companies are already lined up to report their latest quarterly profits and tell shareholders next week how optimistic they feel about the future. This can have a huge impact on share prices this side of…
cyber security firm NCC Group is onto a real winner. Or is it? The company is charged with protecting the online privacy of people who make a living from living very public lives – online. There are thousands of these people in various states of manufacture. They’re like new cars – they roll off the reality…
UK Housebuilders and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are delivering a surprise bounce this morning despite a seventh fund saying it had bolted its gates to investors wanting to cash out. This takes the value of frozen real estate funds to more than half of the sector’s £25bn total; both a good and bad thing….
It’s a great question and one that, despite a great deal of uncertainty in the markets, has a longer answer than simply ‘buy Gold.’ There are plenty of options that aren’t simply safe ports in a storm and that could deliver decent capital gains as the UK re-adjusts to a new life ex-EU. While we’re…
The UK 100 is doing its best to keep the post-Brexit recovery alive in spite of the understandable uncertainty that has arisen following the referendum. But clients keep throwing the same question my way – how can the index be up if my beloved banks, financials, miners and housebuilders are all on their arse? This…