WEEKLY FAYRE – Monday 18th May 2020
BLOG - May 18, 2020
“Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This...
WEEKLY FAYRE – Monday 11th May 2020
BLOG - May 11, 2020
“You did not come,
And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb.
Yet less for loss of your dear presence there
Than that I thus found lacking...
WEEKLY FAYRE – Monday, 4th May 2020
BLOG - May 4, 2020
“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we...
WEEKLY FAYRE – Monday, 27th April 2020
BLOG - April 27, 2020
“The orchards half the way
From home to Ludlow fair
Flowered on the first of May
In Mays when I was there;
And seen from...
WEEKLY FAYRE – Monday, 20th April 2020
BLOG - April 20, 2020
“I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark...
WEEKLY FAYRE – Monday, 13th April 2020
BLOG - April 13, 2020
“April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring...
INVESTORS ARE DETERMINED THAT THE WORLD MUST GO BACK TO WORK BEFORE SCIENTISTS/MEDICAL GURUS HAVE SAID SO
BLOG - April 9, 2020
All those involved in markets know that ‘Hindsight’ has no peer in the realm when it comes to trading or foretelling the future. Nonetheless, on...
SHOULD WE BELIEVE THIS RALLY AGAINST A BACKDROP OF IMPONDERABLE ISSUES?
BLOG - March 31, 2020
Market machinations never cease to amaze me. Last week saw that extraordinary three-day stock market rally in the US and Europe – DJIA up by 21% and...
WEEKLY FAYRE – Monday, 30th March 2020
BLOG - March 31, 2020
“So, we'll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright...
SURELY, THE WORST IS NOT OVER?
BLOG - March 25, 2020
I have lived through the 1974/5 miners’ strike, the 1987 crash, the Russian credit crisis in 1998, the Iraq War in 2003, the Banking crisis 2008,...