Post-Budget and US election – is it time to invest again?
Fidelity’s Ed Monk examines how asset prices responded, which stock markets look cheap – and which don’t.
Fidelity Adviser Solutions 10th Dec 2024
The Week: Budget 2024: bond market nerves
Since the Liz Truss debacle, chancellors have lived in fear of the bond market. Has Rachel Reeves kept it sweet?
Adviser-Hub 31st Oct 2024
Spring Budget 2024: balancing act
As expected, Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt announced a cut in National Insurance in a Spring Budget intended to boost long-term growth.
Adviser-Hub 7th Mar 2024
The Week: Is this really a ‘new age of optimism’?
The Chancellor delivered a boosterish budget, hailing a ‘new age of optimism’. Has the normally-measured Rishi Sunak been drinking some of the Prime Minister’s Kool-Aid? Could the UK economy be over t...
Adviser-Hub 28th Oct 2021
“Whatever it takes”
Less than a week after the Budget, Chancellor the Exchequer Rishi Sunak revealed a package of measures designed to help the UK economy withstand the financial impact of the coronavirus.
Adviser-Hub 18th Mar 2020
The Week: What markets really, really want...
Markets have their fiscal and monetary stimulus, but still they’re not happy. What would it take to improve market sentiment?
Adviser-Hub 12th Mar 2020
Spring Statement 2019: Brexit deal holds the key
Having signalled an end to austerity in the Budget of October 2018, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond struck a slightly more restrained tone in the Spring Statement of March 2019.
Adviser-Hub 14th Mar 2019
The Week: Why was the budget so boring?
The 2018 Budget was boring, even by the standard of recent budgets, but the constraints of Brexit make it difficult to implement any radical ideas
Adviser-Hub 1st Nov 2018
Budget 2018: the end of austerity?
The era of austerity is coming to an end, according to Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond. Government spending is set to pick up, boosted by a better-than-expected outlook for economic growth...
Adviser-Hub 30th Oct 2018
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