by Capital Financial Markets Capital Financial Markets | May 3, 2023 | News
Banking Failures Are your confused as to why we have so recently had a series of individual banking failures? With the emergence from the Covid 19 lockdowns one might think that banks would participate in an economic recovery. With interest rates having risen from...
by Capital Financial Markets Capital Financial Markets | Jan 23, 2023 | News
Happy New Year from all at CFM A new year a new start and so far it is a good one. On the first day of the new quarter the FTSE 100 was trading at a 9-month high. This is partially reflecting the low price of UK stocks relative to their global peers and the...
by Capital Financial Markets Capital Financial Markets | Jan 23, 2023 | News
Inflation and Interest Rates The market is still expecting further interest rate rises in the UK, US and Europe. The US and EU central banks have both said that they will continue to raise interest rates. The UK is also minded to. In the UK post-Christmas trading...
by Capital Financial Markets Capital Financial Markets | Jan 23, 2023 | News
Technology Disruption ChatGPT is a new Artificial Intelligence search engine linked with Elon Musk and Microsoft. You can test it out now if you go to their website. Essentially the software has become very advanced, it can answer most questions you enter. You may...
by Capital Financial Markets Capital Financial Markets | Jan 23, 2023 | News
Outlook Generally, I see the outlook improving as the year progresses due to stabilising or falling interest rates. If interest rates are kept higher for longer this will prolong recovery. UK manufacturing has now effectively been in a recession for 9 months so in my...