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18th May 2022
We’ve had some detail from China this week on plans in place to loosen the lockdowns in Shanghai: shops will begin to open this week, further restrictions will ease towards the end of the week, public transport will start back up and further normality will return from 1st June.
27th April 2022
The big news to start the week was the result of the French Presidential run-off election on Sunday. Sitting President Emanuel Macron held off his far-right opposition leader, Marine Le Pen
6th April 2022
It has been a quiet week, with few market moving headlines, which isn’t a bad thing after a tumultuous month. Markets have now largely made up lost ground after the chasm created in the last 5 weeks.
30th March 2022
There were peace talks between Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday, that made the “most significant progress” that we have seen since Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February - Russia will drastically scale down military operations around Kyiv, and Ukraine said they were willing to adopt a neutral status.
23rd March 2022
The Spring Statement has increasingly become an irrelevance: not only are they light on any meaningful new policies, they have increasingly become updates simply filled with partisan rhetoric and jokes at the expense of the party in opposition.
16th March 2022
In China this week, we saw the release of retail sales, industrial production and fixed asset investment all come in significantly above economists’ expectations.