A strong performance by Amazon has helped propel the FAANGS to new highs. A good holiday season for retailers was underlined by the Johnson Redbook survey, with sales rising 6.2%…
A raft of strong economic reports propelled share prices to yet another fresh high on Friday (3221.2). Stocks have jumped 28.50% this year. It is an extraordinary rise in the…
Boris Johnson gambled, and it paid off handsomely. The strategy, skilfully executed, provides the Conservative Party with a once in a generation opportunity to remould the UK economy. Brexit will…
Last week’s producer price report provided compelling evidence of a moderation in cost ‘pressures’ that could feed into even lower inflation in the US during 2020. The prospect of weaker…
This was not supposed to happen: US employment growth is accelerating despite a prolonged ‘trade war’ between the US and China (that is possibly extending to the Eurozone). Private sector…
Technology is a cause of climate change. Record IT investment has underpinned the longest economic expansion since records began in 1854. And as data from the EIA shows, this has…