by Fisher Investments UK | Jan 25, 2022 | UK
Energy prices spiked in September and October, sparking fears that higher energy costs would tank global economic growth and equity performance. Whilst increased energy prices aren’t great for consumers, they aren’t automatically bad for equities. Fisher Investments...
by Fisher Investments UK | Dec 20, 2021 | UK
Based on the tone of the financial news, investor sentiment has dimmed markedly since 2021 began, with burgeoning optimism over vaccines and reopening from lockdowns giving way to dread of the Delta variant and its associated public policy and economic implications...
by Fisher Investments UK | Nov 18, 2021 | UK
In Fisher Investments UK’s experience, it is common to see financial commentators stress country-specific issues as potential threats to world equity markets. In just the past 10 years, we have seen them do so with Greece’s debt worries, Brexit, Italy’s fragile...
by Fisher Investments UK | Oct 31, 2021 | UK
Since proposing a US corporate tax hike earlier this year, US President Biden has worked with other nations in hopes of adopting a global minimum corporate tax rate. In July, roughly 130 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries...
by Fisher Investments UK | Oct 17, 2021 | UK
Benjamin Franklin was wrong. In 1789, the polymath and first US ambassador to France wrote, “In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Franklin had overlooked the fact that since the establishment of the world’s first stock market in Amsterdam about...
by Fisher Investments UK | Oct 4, 2021 | UK
With economic recoveries picking up in the West, so is chatter about potential monetary policy changes. Across the Atlantic, many financial analysts we follow dissect US Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome Powell’s comments for hints of what will happen with its...
