It’s tempting to think that Brexit is the only story worth reporting: in fact, there was plenty happening in March.
February saw the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement come into force and the economic initiatives from the new President welcomed on Wall Street.
It’s hard to find any news with a neutral view of ‘the Donald’. We’ll do our best to stick to the facts and let you form your own opinion.
At the start of 2016, Brexit was seen as unlikely and President Trump was seen as impossible.
For the second time this year the pollsters and the bookmakers had it spectacularly wrong. First Brexit, now President-elect Donald J Trump.
Following speculation over an increase in Federal Reserve interest rates, one board member has declared they are in no rush to do so.
Last month ‘nothing much happened’ on the world’s stock markets. As you’ll see this month two markets were significantly ahead.
While the stock markets did little in September, one thing that was definitely up was the price of oil. Meanwhile, life in North Korea continued as normal with Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un banning sarcasm.
By and large August was a good – but unexciting – month for the major world stock markets we cover in this commentary. There were no dramatic gains – Hong Kong was the star performer with a rise of 5% – and two or three markets did their best to do nothing at all, but there were no major falls. Despite bad news (again) about the slowdown in the Chinese economy, August was almost a month where the ‘steady as you go’ mantra applied everywhere.
When we left you last month the UK had just voted for Brexit. David Cameron had announced his decision to resign and a contest for the leadership of the Conservative Party – and the keys to 10 Downing Street – was under way.