by Capital Financial Markets Capital Financial Markets | May 9, 2023 | News
Stock Market Review January 2023 – April 2023 The FTSE and Wall Street were flat during the last quarter. Markets had been looking for indications that interest rates would stop rising. This did not occur as inflation remained stubborn. However, it has fallen to...
by Capital Financial Markets Capital Financial Markets | May 3, 2023 | News
Interest rate rise On the 23rd March the Bank of England raised interest rates to 4.25%, making it the 11th consecutive rate hike. This was against speculation that rates may not rise this time, considering the turmoil in the banking sector, caused by the collapse of...
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...