It seems only moments ago, yet last January, with our usual cautiously optimistic but pragmatic and reasoned approach, we wished and hoped for a “no Catch 22” new year. Well, it turned out there were some catches after all. We failed, along with many, to...
In “Sheer Terror”, our blog published in April 2020, we did not have the confidence of the visionary. It would have been a brave prophet who foretold the future in the midst of the pandemic pandemonium. Yes, we wondered if confinement would last another...
The New Year is a traditional moment for businesses to send out a message, to their friends, their clients and to those who, they hope, will become clients in the future. It’s one of those things that has to be done and we are no different. These messages usually...
The latest market thoughts for Autumn 2020 Hamlet would not have made a good prime minister, nor president. He found choosing between his own life or death was too complex to cope with. How much more complicated when the choice of life or death of an economy is...
Mixed messages is today’s understatement. Are there really “green shoots” of progress in the UK, is the Swedish experiment about to fail horribly, has China misled the world about the true number of Covid deaths? Will confinement last another three weeks, three...
Why delaying a property purchase in France could be a false economy In this article we discuss the dynamics around exchange rates and borrowing costs for prospective UK property buyers in France. What has happened, how should we be looking at this and what does the...
