The head of the Bank of England and his fellow ‘Central Bankers’ around the world have been talking doom and gloom. But many, including our favoured portfolio managers, have taken some heart at this. The plan as they see it is to scare us all into spending less and not asking for pay rises, as it could be that this, with some rises in interest rates, will move things in the right direction. And it does seem to be working. They say it’s been ‘retail’ and DIY investors who’ve panicked, sold shares and brought the markets down; while the big ‘institutional’ boys have largely kept the faith. More like the run-up to the ‘Golden 50s’ in the US than the dire 1970s. Hope they’re right.
“Donald Trump is winning. Business, beware”
There’s a perception that whatever might be the consequences for the rest of the world, Trump as President should be good for business. Surely, as a business man himself, he’d be the friend of Corporate America, and everything, money-making-wise, went pretty well last time around didn’t it?
