2025 Uh-oh. It’s a Snapshot on a Friday. No one reads the Snapshot on a Friday. You hadn’t even noticed we don’t do them on a Friday. Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything. We don’t do Snapshots on a Friday unless there’s been a Meaningful-Move-In-The-Market and today we definitely got that. The Stoxx 600 tumbling […]
2025 Lots of discussion by those around me today of how they will now be “stepping in in size” to buy their Euromillions tickets ahead of the £164m jackpot tomorrow having “held off” for the last few weeks. Maybe the £133m last time wasn’t enough for them. Who knows. Big numbers certainly the theme of […]
2025 Dull but changeable is the outlook for the weather this week and markets could be described in a very similar manner as traders shook off the delightful torpor of a long weekend (Stoxx 600 +0.53%) and steadied themselves for what could be indeed be a changeable market ahead. The Fed meeting tomorrow the obvious […]
2025 Whisper it but today felt a bit more…..normal. Tubes back to normal. Cheapside bustling and busy with queues out the door at lunchtime in most places. The Redburn office as busy as it’s been in two years. Some of my team letting themselves down with a MaccyDs breakfast after a client night out. All […]
2025 Back in the Snapshot hot seat after two weeks away spent mostly eating fried chicken and jambalaya with my BMI now mirroring the UN Food Price Index as it breaks out to All Time Highs. Let’s hope moobs are the hot trend for summer. Huge thanks to Messrs Willson and Morrison for stepping in […]
2025 So there’s no such thing as free money and OBVIOUSLY we don’t encourage gambling here at the Snapshot but one does have to wonder if Ukraine aren’t just worth a little flutter at 2/1 to win next month’s Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy. The Kalush Orchestra holding their first performance of what they […]
2025 A sobering day really (Stoxx 600 -1.9%) as “Money Saving Expert” Martin Lewis – known for helping people switch their mortgages and car insurance – shifted his focus to a “How to Heat the Human not the Home” guide. Today’s rise in National Insurance in the UK another blow to consumers who are finding […]
2025 “Plus l’abstention est forte plus les sondages sont faux” I was told by the Eric Cantona of my team in Paris today. I’m pretty sure he even had his collar up. Yes the French elections loom large and whilst opinion polls will tell you Monsieur Macron is a shoe-in for a second term there […]
2025 “It’s picking off all the people who haven’t had it one by one….there’s no escape” said one of my colleagues somewhat ominously from her Covid bunker last week having finally succumbed to the lurgy. So let the sweepstake begin. 91 hours until the Quick family take the lateral flow test that will allow us […]
2025 Every morning, as I change tubes at Tott Ct Rd, I walk past an advert for the Magic Mike show that my wife seems quite keen to go to with her friends. And every morning I see the dude’s torso with not an ounce of body fat and I think to myself “Dammit Quick […]