Market Bulletins - Abbeygate Wealth Management Ltd

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WeekWatch (13/01/2020)

It is 104 years this month since Mark Sykes, a UK diplomat, and François Georges-Picot, ...

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WeekWatch (06/01/2020)

. Back in 2008, Ford took apart a Ford Focus and had several of its parts strung as musica...

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WeekWatch (23/12/2019)

He might be able to quote Cicero and Catullus, but last week Boris Johnson seemed keener t...

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WeekWatch (16/12/2019)

It is 101 years since the Representation of the People Act delivered universal suffrage fo...

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WeekWatch (09/12/2019)

Getting the family together at Christmas is something many of us look forward to and dread...

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WeekWatch (05/12/2019)

“Well, I don’t know how it gets better than this.” Taylor Swift wasn’t singing abo...

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WeekWatch (25/11/2019)

In 1789 French parliamentarians attending their National Assembly gravitated to one side o...

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WeekWatch (18/11/2019)

Back in 2004, Blockbuster Video boasted 9,000 stores worldwide. Today, a single franchise ...

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WeekWatch (11/11/2019)

“Deal or no deal?” was the question on investors’ minds this week, as they waited fo...

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WeekWatch (04/11/2019)

The late Gianni Agnelli was the richest man in modern Italian history and a style icon to ...

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WeekWatch (28/10/2019)

Emperor Jimmu is said to have taken his place on the Chrysanthemum Throne as Japan’s fir...

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WeekWatch (21/10/2019)

The constitutional set-up of the British Isles can be more than a little confusing, even f...

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WeekWatch (14/10/2019)

You wait years for a new marathon milestone; then two come along at once. On the same week...

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WeekWatch (07/10/2019)

The IAAF World Athletics Championships and Rugby World Cup might have been in full swing b...

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WeekWatch (30/09/2019)

In the Supreme Court on Tuesday, the 11 judges of the UK’s highest judicial body unanimo...

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WeekWatch (26/08/2019)

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”...

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WeekWatch (19/08/2019)

“Rise, like lions after slumber/ In unvanquishable number! /Shake your chains to earth l...

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WeekWatch (12/08/2019)

It took just 22 minutes for Franky Zapata to hoverboard his way across the English Channel...

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WeekWatch (05/08/2019)

Back in 2008, an eloquent British journalist and politician wrote that the drop in sterlin...

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WeekWatch (29/07/2019)

The ‘blond bombshell’ finally has the keys to 10 Downing Street. Having won the Conser...

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WeekWatch (22/07/2019)

The Beatles performed their last live concert on a rooftop in London just a few months ear...

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WeekWatch (15/07/2019)

Well, so much for the ‘special relationship’. UK ambassador Kim Darroch resigned on We...

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WeekWatch (08/07/2019)

As ever on 4th July, skies across the US were lit up with firework displays commemorating ...

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WeekWatch (01/07/2019)

It is sometimes said that equity investors look for opportunities, whereas bond investors ...

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WeekWatch (24/06/2019)

Someone, it seems, is bluffing. Last week, Conservative MPs whittled down their leadership...

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WeekWatch (17/06/2019)

In the British Museum hangs a 17th century painting of Tao Gu, a tenth century Chinese sch...

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WeekWatch (10/06/2019)

It was a week to look back: Western leaders gathered in Normandy to mark 75 years since D-...

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WeekWatch (03/06/2019)

“It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.” Macbe...

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WeekWatch (20/05/2019)

If you want a shorthand for which way the Brexit winds are blowing, look no further than s...

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WeekWatch (13/05/2019)

All diplomacy is war by other means.” So said Zhou Enlai – the architect, alongside He...

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WeekWatch (29/04/2019)

Game of Thrones has entered is its eighth and final series. The franchise is worth around ...

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WeekWatch (23/04/2019)

Have you over-indulged? You wouldn’t be alone. On average, every UK household will have ...

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WeekWatch (01/04/2019)

The three-year face-off between executive, legislature and voters has reached its endgame....

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WeekWatch (18/03/2019)

Stock Last Thursday marked 99 years since the second of two plebiscites that finally settl...

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WeekWatch (11/03/2019)

Stock Time, it seems, really is money after all. Saturday marked exactly ten years since g...

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WeekWatch (04/03/2019)

Stock “To be alive at all involves some risk,” said Harold Macmillan. When it comes to...

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WeekWatch (25/02/2019)

Stock China produces 70% of the world’s mobile phones; half its cement, steel and alumin...

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WeekWatch (18/02/2019)

Stock It seems 15th-century financial advice doesn’t come cheap. This Thursday, a Veneti...

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WeekWatch (11/02/2019)

Stock The Chinese Year of the Pig, which began last Tuesday, is traditionally linked to lu...

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WeekWatch (04/02/2019)

Stock What a difference a month makes. January, whose name ultimately derives from ‘...

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WeekWatch (28/01/2019)

Stock The late comic Victoria Wood once said, “Life’s not fair, is it? Some of us ...

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WeekWatch (21/01/2019)

Stock “Would it not be easier…for the government to dissolve the people and el...

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WeekWatch (14/01/2019)

Stock “There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the basis of society than ...

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WeekWatch (07/01/2019)

Stock These days America has two ‘Big Apples’, one on each coast, and they both pack a...

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Market Bulletin (17/12/2018)

Pinball pound “Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least ...

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Market Bulletin (10/12/2018)

Cutting edges Over the long term, China can lay claim to pioneering some of the world’s ...

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Market Bulletin (04/12/2018)

Positional play Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of D...

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Market Bulletin (26/11/2018)

Technology revolutions Steamships and railroads opened up the nineteenth century world; el...

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Market Bulletin (19/11/2018)

A good deal worse? There are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks, said Lenin,...

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Market Bulletin (12/11/2018)

Terminal moments “Why speak they not of comrades that went under?” ends Wilfred Owen�...

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Market Bulletin (05/11/2018)

Soldiering on “Money is a good soldier, and will on,” said Falstaff, one of Shakespear...

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Market Bulletin (29/10/2018)

Market reset Sir Christopher Wren, the architect behind the Royal Observatory in Greenwich...

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Market Bulletin (22/10/2018)

Shop drop The disruptor has been disrupted. Sears, Roebuck and Company was founded in 1892...

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Market Bulletin (15/10/2018)

Volatility reprise Earlier this year, Betterment, an online investment company based in Ne...

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Market Bulletin (08/10/2018)

Dancing Queen “You know, as a business principle, it’s not good to have all your eggs ...

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Market Bulletin (01/10/2018)

Turning tides “Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent int...

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Market Bulletin (25/09/2018)

Auf Wiedersehen The Felsenreitschule theatre in Salzburg is used to goodbyes. It was where...

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Market Bulletin (18/09/2018)

Downfall Ten years ago last Saturday, a 158-year-old US bank filed for bankruptcy. The dem...

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Market Bulletin (11/09/2018)

Parting course The tale of global markets this year has been one of growing divergence, an...

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Market Bulletin (04/09/2018)

Norman conquest “We won the battle, but we haven’t won the war,” said Anthony Quesne...

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Market Bulletin (28/08/2018)

Ageing bull? On Friday, the S&P 500 struck another all-time closing high – but the ...

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Market Bulletin (21/08/2018)

In hot water At last month’s NATO summit, Donald Trump appeared to demonstrate his admir...

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Market Bulletin (14/08/2018)

Falling star The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo an...

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Market Bulletin (07/08/2018)

Pump primed According to IMF definitions, the last global recession lasted from 2009 to 20...

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Market Bulletin (31/07/2018)

Unfriended “I believe in the horse,” said Wilhelm II, German Emperor, more than a cent...

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Market Bulletin (24/07/2018)

Turn of phrase It was a week to make a Surrealist blush. The strangeness began on Monday i...

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Market Bulletin (17/07/2018)

Deeds not words According to the efficient market hypothesis, the prices of stocks reflect...

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Market Bulletin (10/07/2018)

Plausible deniability? “Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially ...

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Market Bulletin (03/07/2018)

Revved up The US economy, engine of global growth, appears to be firing on all cylinders. ...

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Market Bulletin (26/06/2018)

Financial alchemy One of the leading trends on financial markets in recent years has been ...

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Market Bulletin (19/06/2018)

Management matters “I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business,” the Derb...