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Too Soon To Be Doomed 02/07/2010
Since the end of April, when equity markets reached their post-crisis peaks, global equities as measured by the Morgan Stanley World Index have retreated by 12% in Sterling whilst global government bond prices have risen.
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Just When It Was All Going So Well... 12/05/2010
As we write this, the UK election results and European Sovereign debt problems are unsettling investment markets. The immediate impact of the former - having delivered a hung parliament - is still evolving but, as we suggested could be the case in our article two weeks ago, so far it is leading to pressure on Sterling and UK government bond prices.
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Will Investors Be "Hung Out To Dry" By A Hung Parliament? 28/04/2010
With Nick Clegg (and by extension, the Liberal Democrats) emerging as the stars of the television debates, if voters act according to the post-debate opinion polls the outcome to the UK general election on May 5th will be a hung parliament.
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The Story So Far 21/04/2010
In the last decades of the 20th Century, investors enjoyed the fruits of the so-called "great moderation". It was believed that governments and central banks could dampen economic cycles - preventing the booms & busts that caused widespread social pain and unrest.
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The Question of Growth 14/04/2010
The countdown to the May 6th general election has unsurprisingly intensified the political debate about the economy.
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