From the Ridiculous to the Existential

It has been a short week but President Trump has dominated most of it . . triggering a lighthearted moment of relief and amusement with a twitter typo (“covfefe”) which moved to international rebuke when he announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate...

Wake up and smell the covfefe!

It was a light night of comedy on twitter earlier this week, which briefly distracted from the uncertainty of the US position on the Paris Climate Accord, the fallout from the recent Presidential trip overseas and the likelihood of real legislative change making it to...

Fixed Income – still a safe haven

The US Fed confirmed today that it is likely to begin to pare back the close to $4.5 trillion of assets on its balance sheet (mostly government debt and mortgage backed securities).  In order to avoid too much market impact it is likely to allow certain issues to run...

Desensitized . .

Last night’s terror attack on Manchester Arena was a horrific act of barbarity that struck at the heart of innocence – young adults, teenagers, children and families enjoying a pop concert.  The most severe terrorist attack on British soil since the London...

Why don’t markets WannaCry?

Last week was a busy week of newsflow as the firing of the FBI head, James Comey fired up pundits and conspiracy theorists, while over the weekend a massive, coordinated cyberattack hit computers from the UK health service to German trains to corporates in South East...