Yesterday was the fourth-worst day in US stock market history since 1928: I think we need to stop thinking this is a blip what will
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It is quite astonishing how quickly Brexit has been forgotten. Coronavirus has swept it aside. But to ignore the fact that it is ongoing, and
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This is the FTSE 100 5 year chart from Yahoo, just now: That is what a cliffe edge looks like. And it will get worse.

As a newly elected MP Rishi Sunak spoke in the budget debate of 2015, saying: That to me suggests a simple conclusion: in normal times,
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This morning’s chart for the FTSE 100 suggests that the markets are as unconvinced by Rishi Sunak’s budget as I was: As votes of confidence
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I tweeted this last night: There are 1,257 hospitals in the UK. Yesterday they did 1,500 coronavirus tests between them. That is just over one
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It is time for calm budget reflection. Or rather, as calm a budget reflection as can be delivered on a day when the world appears
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The quality of UK financial commentary is always a cause for despair. This comment comes from the FT this afternoon: The UK government announced its
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The Guardian reported today that: The president of the European Central Bank has warned that the coronavirus outbreak will spark an economic downturn in Europe
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