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Weekly Roundup & Look Ahead: Equities spend the week selling  off until Friday’s strong Non-Farm payrolls reverse the trend

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Synopsis of the week Last week saw equity markets drift lower as investors moved into a risk-off mentality. Mario Draghi, Head of the European Central Bank has once again spoken in enthusiastic terms about the markets and gone some way to quashing fears that the ECB are ready to change their approach to the current quantitative easing scheme. Wednesday’s US…

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Weekly Roundup & Look Ahead: The DOW hits 21,000 on the back of Trump’s Congress speech

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Synopsis of the week Last weeks speech from President Trump to congress might not have packed a political punch but it certainly contained everything the markets wanted to hear as the Dow kicked higher. Positive sentiment from the US helped the Dax break above 12,000. With the focus now turning to the ECB’s speech this week coupled with German factory…

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Bloomberg: Corporate Tax Wars to Move FX Markets

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Corporate tax levels could become a driver in foreign exchange markets, says Fern Wealth’s Director of Investment Managment, Alastair McCaig as he talks to Bloomberg Daybreak Europe’s Nejra Cehic and Markus Karlsson.  They also discuss the European Union and how the euro could be left short-changed. Click here to listen to the interview on Bloomberg.

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Weekly Roundup & Look Ahead: Big week ahead as Trump addresses Congress.

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Synopsis of the week Late rally on Wall Street sees Dow Jones Industrial Average sent to 11th successive record closing high on Friday which makes it the longest run since 1987. Dax flirts with 12,000 but Europe sells off on Friday’s initial US weakness. Futures marginally positive for Monday’s open. Currencies were mostly flat with positive gains in Gold hitting…

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Weekly Roundup & Look Ahead: Wall Street eyes 21,000 for the Dow Jones rather than worrying about Trump troubles

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Synopsis of the week Crude Oil prices continue to hover around the $56 and with OPEC member’s commitments continuing to be met, might this be the time for a more meaningful move higher? This week has seen the MSCI’s World Index rally to a fresh all-time high showing that equity traders have not lost faith that markets will go higher….

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Weekly Roundup & Look Ahead: After a few shaky weeks the FTSE looks to be back on track and heading higher

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Synopsis of the week We are still some way off the final results of a French election but this week has increased fears of a lame duck government or even a far right victory. French voters look just as dissatisfied with the current government as American voters were only a few months ago. Greece has come back into focus again…

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Weekly Roundup & Look Ahead: Traders over exuberance quashed as fears of trade negotiations and protectionism cool the Trump rally

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Synopsis of the week The delivery of a white paper on Brexit by Theresa May might well have been 77-pages long but did little to answer any of the complex questions the investment community wanted clarity on. The FOMC statement on Wednesday evening rather underwhelmed the FX markets as it gave little reason to expect the next US rate rise…

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Weekly Roundup & Look Ahead: President Trump moves into The White House

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Synopsis of the week It was a week of jitters as traders and investors alike tried to rebalance market exposure ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration. The first half of the week was dominated by Theresa May’s speech on what she would be looking to achieve from March’s negotiations following the triggering of article 50. This year’s Davos WEF meeting completely…

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Weekly Roundup & Look Ahead: The FTSE has started the year with a bang, setting all-time highs. Dow Jones 30 finally hits 20000*

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* Actually, 19999.63 was the high, but as we’re amongst friends we decided to round up! Synopsis of the week The FTSE looks to have started 2017 off in the same fashion it finished 2016 as it continues to edge higher. European retailers suffer as UK heavyweight Next collapses with awful year-end sales figures. Donald Trump continues to use twitter as…

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