Morning Roll Call

USA markets closed up on Monday with certain major indices setting record highs, investors entered the last two trading weeks before Xmas, whilst keeping their minds focused on the FOMC meeting, which is due to conclude on Wednesday. The overall consensus is leaning towards a rate rise to 1.5% being announced, with the FOMC keeping […]

The current, dominant, political issues in the USA, were underpinned by encouraging fundamental news, sending the SPX and DJIA indices to record highs on Friday. The tax reform programme looks set to become law and the U.S. government avoided a scheduled shutdown (due to its $20+ trillion debt), as lawmakers agreed to a temporary debt

The U.K. pound rose sharply versus its peers during Thursday’s trading sessions, as optimism regarding the U.K. position on Brexit improved, with the European chief negotiator Michel Barnier suggesting that he’d extend the time before he has to report to E.U. commissioners with regards to progress, which would then allow trade talks to open. From

The USA main equity markets slipped back during Wednesday’s trading sessions, the reasons given by the majority of analysts, was profit taking and institutional level traders not being prepared to open new positions, for fear that they may book a loss, which could affect their yearly results and bonus. Calendar economic news for the USA

Analysts and economists could be forgiven for ignoring the various hard data metrics regarding the USA economy over recent months, as any negative hard data is simply ignored, whereas positive news appears to propel the U.S. equity markets to new heights. As an example; the country’s trade deficit worsened during October, according to the latest

Both the DJIA and SPX initially reacted favorably to the news that the Republicans’ tax reform program had passed a vote in The Senate early Saturday morning, making it highly likely that (in its present form) the reforms will now become law. Investors wasted no time in immediately translating the reforms as a gift for

Over the weekend one of the pillars of Trump’s election pledge to “make America great again” finally began the process of becoming law, after being voted for in The Senate. The republicans’ tax reduction programme was finally voted through on Saturday morning, a plan that will ensure that anyone who earns less than circa $75k

As the Republicans’ tax reform programme reaches the final discussion and voting period, USA equities rallied, as confidence emerged that the necessary Senate votes would be captured, in order to push through the vote. The fly in the ointment is that the Republican Party only needs 2-3 of its Senators to vote against the programme,

Throughout the analysis, regarding Trump’s intended tax reform programme, which is now set for ongoing debate in the senate until a vote takes place on Thursday, few financial media commentators have picked up on the effect the reforms will have on tech shares. As a consequence of the tax avoidance measures already in place and

After months of gridlock the U.K. Brexit negotiation team has apparently finally agreed to pay an exit cost of circa €100b gross, which will reduce to circa €65b net over time. This first agreement, if completely ratified by the E.U., will now allow the negotiations to move onto discussing other issues, such as; the rights