A Tuesday rally which peaked on Wednesday and finished a little tired and jaded on a Friday. Me or the market – you decide. The answer of course is – ahem – the market (Stoxx 600 -0.3%) but overall this was a decent week. The FTSE up 2.38% over the 5 days, the Stoxx 600 […]
Excitement in the air here ahead of our Christmas party tonight. Much angst over whether to go ahead with it or not but we’re a democratic firm and the vote (the most-responded-to-poll in Redburn history) overwhelmingly in favour of cracking on with it. Let’s get endemic baby. Today was a calmer, more measured session (Stoxx […]
Lack of direction and no clear ideas … and that’s just the England Cricket team. Cheap shot I know but the wind certainly out of their sails overnight and the market struggling a little today too albeit after a monster two day move to the upside. Headlines all a bit bearish on the UK Covid […]
What a day that was. Yesterday’s nibble in the market followed by a full blown all-sector pop as fears that Omicron could put the recovery in doubt almost completely subsided and the markets behaving, well, more like we’re used to. Powell’s hawkish comments around the Thanksgiving holiday also been pushed into the “not that bothered […]
A good day to focus the mind today. Back to back calls on a variety of topics ranging from our ECM ambitions to an algo pitch to a monthly recap of what the markets did in November and what to watch from here. All of them interesting but the last of the three absolutely fascinating […]
They had been a bit quiet lately our pharma team. The spotlight having moved off their film star good looks and towards our (equally good looking) macro team and other areas of the market as we pitch from one side of the boat to the other. But boy are they back with a vengeance and […]
Now I know we told you there wouldn’t be a snapshot today and as much as we don’t like going against our word, we thought the market having it’s biggest move of the year (SXXP-3.7%) warranted a change of heart. The ‘Nu’ Variant or ‘Variant of Concern’ gaining all the attention and met with a […]
OK so well done everybody. We’ve made it to Thanksgiving and Plan B still firmly in its box in the UK. Frankly it can stay there til January by which point I might be quite glad of a couple weeks at home. It does feel like there’s quite a lot of Covid knocking around again […]
Never mind the turkey, I hope you’ve got your X-Box and Playstation deliveries sorted for Christmas. Online electricals retailer AO World (-15%) warning today that both could be in short supply by Christmas as chip shortages continue to bite. One of those days where the single stock moves were violent, the mood unforgiving and the […]
I’m not gonna lie to you – I kissed quite a lot of blokes last week. I’d read about the Covid induced demise of “La Bise” – the double kiss that the French make look so classy and which I’m very much yet to master – but I’d say rumours of its death are exaggerated. […]