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22nd December 2025
Market Matters- Inflation calms nerves, AI finds its feet, BoE cuts (just), Japan tightens
Equity markets finished the week in better shape than they started. The UK led the way (+2.6% for the FTSE 100), Europe added around +1.1%, and the US was marginally ...
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16th December 2025
Market Matters – FED cuts into continuing AI wobble
Equity markets spent the week treading water rather than delivering a decisive end-of-year surge. Japan and broader emerging markets crept higher, Europe and the UK ...
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15th December 2025
FSCS Protection Rises to £120,000 — New Confidence for Clients and Advisers
Effective 1 December 2025, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) deposit protection limit has increased from £85,000 to £120,000 — the first uplift since ...
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8th December 2025
Market Matters – Waiting For The Catalyst
Markets ended the week with a distinctly muted tone. Despite plenty of discussion around year-end rallies and seasonal tailwinds, price action suggests investors ...
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24th November 2025
Market Matters – Q4’s Early Momentum Fades as Markets Hit an Air Pocket
Market Overview Markets have stumbled into late November, giving back much of their early-Q4 progress and slipping into a phase of broad but uneven consolidation. ...
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17th November 2025
Market Matters – The Rally Is Intact, Even If the Week Felt Anything But
It should have been a cleaner week than this. The longest US government shutdown in history is finally over, the lights are coming back on across Washington, and the ...
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14th November 2025
Predictable Income, Fewer Complaints
Recent FCA data highlights an uncomfortable trend: pension and decumulation complaints have risen sharply, with total redress payments up 20% to £283 million in the ...
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10th November 2025
Market Matters – Fatigue, Fog, and Fed Caution
After six months of relentless gains, global markets finally took a breath. The week felt less like a sell-off and more like fatigue, investors pausing for breath ...
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3rd November 2025
Market Matters-Eerie Easing, Trade Tensions Thaw & Other October Oddities
Alliteration is one of the last great art forms no? The Hang Seng was closed for the Lunar New Year, while the Nikkei 225 was closed for Japan’s National Day ...
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27th October 2025
Market Matters – “Goldilocks Continues the climb via earnings optimism”
Last week, markets continued their rally, with major indices approaching all-time highs. Momentum that had already been building gained strength after a ...
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20th October 2025
Market Matters – Credit Jitters, Calm Heads
Jamie Dimon’s ‘cockroach’ metaphor might have stolen the headlines this week, a reminder that the odd default can sometimes hint at broader credit fragility, but so ...
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7th October 2025
Markets continue their upward march
September ended without the drama many had feared, and October has begun on a quietly confident note. Equity markets moved higher again last week, with both the ...
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