by Steve Milford | Mar 31, 2020 | Business and Markets |
Explaining why markets have crashed over the last couple of weeks is easy, but trying to work out how global stock markets will react in the next few months is not going to be as simple. We can certainly look back at previous market falls including Black Monday, The...
by Steve Milford | Mar 31, 2020 | Daily Updates |
PWS Southport live news and market updates keeping you up to date on coronavirus news and how global stock markets are reacting to the on-going pandemic. 31st March 2020 17.00 → Market Update The FTSE 100 ended the day up 1.95 per cent at 5,671. 16.00 → UK Coronavirus...
by Steve Milford | Mar 24, 2020 | Coronavirus, News |
Global stock markets surge on the prospect of Donald Trump’s $2trn bailout. However, political point-scoring by the Democrat’s in the US could derail the $2trn stimulus, which, would affect potential gains on global stock markets. Even with the prospect of...
by Steve Milford | Mar 23, 2020 | Coronavirus, News |
After an unprecedented week of bailouts by the UK Government, the FTSE 100 index finished the week down 4 per cent and 31 per cent year to date. Although the FTSE 100 index finished the week above 5000 points, my feeling is that another week of volatility is...
by Steve Milford | Mar 19, 2020 | Coronavirus, News |
The Bank of England (BoE) has reduced the UK base rate to a record low of 0.10% to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The FTSE 100 ended the day at 5,173 up 1.83% after the Bank of England reduced interest rates to an all-time low of 0.10%. It will be too early to see...