Henk Potts, Barclays Wealth Equity Strategist, appears regularly on Radio 4, CNBC, Bloomberg and other international media. Listen to his review of the past week in the markets and preview of the week ahead, available here every Monday. This broadcast is not a personal recommendation and you should consider whether you can rely upon any [...]
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Henk Potts, Barclays Wealth Equity Strategist, appears regularly on Radio 4, CNBC, Bloomberg and other international media. Listen to his review of the past week in the markets and preview of the week ahead, available here every Monday. This broadcast is not a personal recommendation and you should consider whether you can rely upon any [...]
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Henk Potts, Barclays Wealth Equity Strategist, appears regularly on Radio 4, CNBC, Bloomberg and other international media. Listen to his review of the past week in the markets and preview of the week ahead, available here every Monday. This broadcast is not a personal recommendation and you should consider whether you can rely upon any [...]
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Many indicators point to stronger US GDP in the final quarter of last year. And let us hope that US surprises us again in 2011. The US ended 2010 in pretty good shape, reviving long-forgotten optimism about the world’s largest economy. Over the past few weeks, economic news coming from the other side of the [...]
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IMF/EU orbit may not be as straightforward as Ireland – and perhaps Portugal – hopes. Spain and Italy must also battle against economic gravity. For those of you not old enough to remember the Muppets, “Pigs in Space” was a spoof on Star Trek, in which a bunch of hogs boldly went, as it were, to discover [...]
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Nearly 100 years ago the Titanic set off on its maiden voyage, bound for New York. Exceedingly high expectations were soon followed by disaster.1 Is the Fed’s new round of quantitative easing (QE2), another big boat launched this week into distinctly chilly seas, likely to founder too? We suspect that it might be. How much [...]
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What do we want? 20%! This isn’t a demand for a wage increase – or for a cut in public spending. It’s for something altogether different and potentially even more disruptive. To find out what this is, read on. No, this isn’t a story about workers’ pay claims in China or some other fast-growing developing nation – even though similar such headlines [...]
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Three issues could determine whether the global economic recovery staggers on, or takes a turn for the worse. Markets are likely to either “crunch” or “roar”.
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Kevin Gardiner is Head of Investment Strategy, EMEA
Greg B. Davies
Greg B. Davies, PhD, is Head of Behavioural Finance
Henk Potts
Henk Potts is Market Analyst
