by Capital Financial Markets Capital Financial Markets | Apr 12, 2022 | News
It is almost impossible not to comment on the Ukraine crisis. Excepting the smaller events in the Bosnian war of the 1990s, this is the first major conflict in Europe since the second world war in 1945. There is no doubt that there are immense geopolitical and...
by Capital Financial Markets Capital Financial Markets | Jan 27, 2022 | News
Not many of us will want to dwell too long on 2021. Unfortunately, a year dominated again by Covid-19 with restrictions on social and work life, travel difficulties, cancelled arrangements and far too much time spent in front of screens. But during the first half of...
by Capital Financial Markets Capital Financial Markets | Jan 27, 2022 | News
The final quarter of the year was positive for most stock markets including our FTSE 100 which rose 7.45%. This compared favourably with other major stock markets and better than the NASDAQ’s 4.13% rise. The NASDAQ which is home to many technology companies has...
by Capital Financial Markets Capital Financial Markets | Oct 28, 2021 | News
Markets over the last three months have fallen slightly but are still much higher than a year ago. This is despite all the negative stories. A saying when I first came into stockbroking was that “Wall Street climbs a wall of worry.” When times are bad often the market...
by Capital Financial Markets Capital Financial Markets | Oct 27, 2021 | News
It can sometimes be hard to decide what to write about but a cursory glance of the performance statistics for the last 3 months and then viewed slightly differently, over the previous 1 and 3 years clarified a theme that has been developing in my mind recently. Namely...
