UK Spring Budget 6 March 2024
Chancellor Hunt announces £10bn National Insurance cut in pre-election Budget In today’s Budget statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt asserted that the UK economy ‘has turned a
Chancellor Hunt announces £10bn National Insurance cut in pre-election Budget In today’s Budget statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt asserted that the UK economy ‘has turned a
Santa Rally 2023 Since a market low point at the end of October, equity markets, particularly in the US rallied strongly in the last two
The pension lifetime allowance (LTA) recovery tax charge was reduced to 0% for 2023/24 and is due to be abolished from April 2024. Announced in
A Timeline of Negative World Events and Subsequent Market Responses ‘The stock market is a device to transfer money from the impatient to the patient.’
Equity Markets August and September are notoriously poor performing months, having been the two worst-performing months for over 50 years. Following suit, the bullish sentiment
Equity Markets Following on from the turmoil within the US banking sector, the stress continued in Q2 as JP Morgan acquired First Republic Bank in
Equity Markets Following a particularly weak 2022, global equity markets experienced a positive start to the year, with most major indices posting gains throughout the
Markets have been volatile this week following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the US. SVB lent money to many small technology
Pension Changes The Chancellor announced that the Lifetime Allowance (LTA) will effectively be removed from 6 April 2023, so it will mark the end
Investors will be glad to see the back of 2022. The year can be summed up by the Collins dictionary’s word of the year, ‘permacrisis’,
Equities rose strongly at the start of the third quarter of 2022 mirroring the hot summer witnessed in many parts of the world as thermostats
After the relative calm of May, June witnessed a brutal sell off in markets around the world, and this time the UK equity market was
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