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Interest rates for the Eurozone and US diverge

Important interest rate announcements were made in June, both in the UK and the US. The US Federal Reserve announced its seventh 0.25% increase in interest rates since December 2015, taking the level to 1.75%-2.00%. The rise had already been incorporated in market prices by...

23 July, 2018 / 0 Comments

Reminders for the new tax year

The start of the new tax year on 6 April marks several changes to tax and related matters that could make you richer… or poorer. The absence of a Spring Budget does not mean that the usual raft of changes at the start of the...

19 March, 2018 / 0 Comments

The slow climb of US interest rates, a quarter percentage at a time…

The US central bank increased interest rates again in December. While the Bank of England managed just one interest rate rise in 2017, to end the year at 0.5%, its counterpart in the US notched up three increases, finishing at 1.25%-1.50%. The trio of Federal Reserve...

05 February, 2018 / 0 Comments

A rewarding 2017 for shares

The world’s share markets were a profitable place to be in 2017. 2017 had its fair share of dramas. There was the unending reality show of Donald Trump and his tweets. On this side of the Atlantic the ongoing saga was Brexit and the “strong and...

30 January, 2018 / 0 Comments

Almost but not quite – Near miss on inflation helps boost interest rate

September inflation was just low enough to spare Mark Carney writing to the Chancellor. And helped spur the first interest rate rise in a decade. Each year the Chancellor of the day gives the Bank of England an inflation target to meet. Ever since Gordon Brown...

04 December, 2017 / 0 Comments

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Interest rates for the Eurozone and US diverge

Reminders for the new tax year

The slow climb of US interest rates, a quarter percentage at a time…

A rewarding 2017 for shares

Almost but not quite – Near miss on inflation helps boost interest rate