Market highlights: Week ending 12th February 2021

MARKET SUMMARY

Another week, another record high. All Stock Index’s climbed more than 1% over the week, with the S&P 500 recording its 10th record close of 2021 alone.

Positive earnings results continue to feed the upbeat market sentiment, with over 80% of reports beating…

Market highlights: Week ending 05th February 2021

MARKET SUMMARY

Markets recovered well this week, shaking off last week’s short-term pullback of -3.5%.

The S&P 500 closed out the week up 4.7%, while the tech-heavy NASDAQ finished up 6%, both hitting new record highs in the process. Optimism around a massive fiscal relief…

Who won the ‘Reddit Revolution’

GameStop’s Wild Week

After a few years of writing and talking about financial markets, you start to realise that most of what you speak about causes involuntary narcolepsy in roughly 90% of people. …

Market highlights: Week ending 15th January 2021

Market outlook 2021

A YEAR OF HEALING

YEAR IN REVIEW

I’m sure you are tired of hearing the horrors of 2020 rehashed across every media platform imaginable, so I won’t delay with the recap. A blow-by-blow recount of a year many of us wish to forget seems redundant. The recycled narrative of pandemic worries…

Actionable savings and investing advice that actually works

The Mistake

As we kickstart a new year, the usual flurry of resolutions gives way to exclamations of “new year, new me!” from the over-exuberant masses, all equally convinced that the mistakes of years past are all behind them and this year will ‘be…

Market highlights: Week ending 27th November 2020

Michael O'Connor

Explainer of investment stuff, starting an investment blog to help cure my procrastination

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