What’s Happening in Markets?
It is worth understanding the three main forces in financial markets: economic fundamentals, technical trading, and sentiment. At the beginning of last week all three of these aligned to send the pound briefly to historic lows. Economic fundamentals, which tend to...A week is a long time in politics…
Given the many political and market events of the past week it is difficult to know where to start. It may be useful to look at the UK economy as an overinflated balloon. The balloon has been reduced in size by Covid, demographics, people leaving the workforce and...Does your company have a shareholders agreement?
For limited companies, when it comes to making decisions, company law states that shareholders who own more than 50% can pass a motion at a company meeting regardless of the views of other shareholders. If a shareholder(s) owns more than 75% of the shares, they...Could the Bank of England look to match the US Fed 0.75% interest rate rise over the next few months?
The Bank of England (BoE) is currently facing two main challenges – a weak pound and soaring inflation. The only weapon it has to counter both is to raise the interest rate. Gus Williams, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Bevan Buckland LLP, explores the detail...Are supply issues driving inflation and what happens next to interest rates?
Understandably, conversations in the business community have turned to inflation, interest rates and what happens next for the economy.