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Be careful of stepping into trouble when market fundamentals are still so shaky February 10, 2021 Yogi Dewan is CEO and founder of Hassium Asset Management. Many investment houses are again forecasting a bull market in 2021. Whilst I am neither bullish or bearish this feels like an accident waiting to happen. Whilst we remain positive near term, markets now look very overvalued and very overbought. Investor sentiment seems once again to be [...]
Blueprint for London’s COVID recovery from “cultural catastrophe” set out by City Taskforce February 9, 2021 Close collaboration across the cultural, civic and commercial sectors will be essential in tackling the “cultural catastrophe” caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a report published by the Culture and Commerce Taskforce reveals today. Chaired by Lord Mayor William Russell, the City of London Corporation – in partnership with its creative district, Culture Mile – formed [...]
London facing ‘cultural catastrophe’ due to Covid-19 pandemic February 9, 2021 London’s creative and commercial sectors will have to team up to tackle the “cultural catastrophe” caused by coronavirus, the City of London Corporation has said. In a report published today, the corporation warned of the “devastating” impact of the pandemic and outlined steps needed to restore the capital’s competitive advantage as a cultural and commercial [...]
Financial markets continue to hang on two Vs: vaccine and virus February 9, 2021 Global equities bounced strongly last week, gaining nearly 5 per cent and more than reversing their losses from the previous week. Stock markets ended the week at new highs and opened again higher yesterday. The market correction ended up lasting no more than a week. “So too did the surge in GameStock which has fallen back [...]
Elon’s Tesla play sends Bitcoin ballistic like one of his SpaceX Falcon 9 Rockets! February 9, 2021 Crypto at a Glance Well, the inevitable indeed happened. After week’s of batted eyelashes, flirty texts, and pumping Doge, Elon Musk finally put up and put out. Musk has boarded the big bus to bitcoin city, population 21 million AND NEVER ANY MORE THAN THAT. via GIPHY That’s right, Elon Musk’s car firm Tesla yesterday [...]
DAY 1: Tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch fights extradition to the US February 9, 2021 British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch began earlier today his fight against his extradition, slamming the US for “overreaching” and saying the UK authorities could prosecute the alleged fraud. Alex Bailin QC, for Lynch, said the US Department of Justice (DoJ) is “not the global marshall of the corporate world”, as he launched the former Autonomy [...]
We need to ‘Change the Race Ratio’ February 8, 2021 DiverCity® Podcast · Changing the Race Ratio The history books will likely remember 2020 as a year of great change and loss, but amid the human tragedy and economic fallout of the global pandemic, there were also signs of hope – especially for the D&I agenda. The killing of an unarmed black man by a [...]
City A.M. TV: Daily market snapshot (video) February 8, 2021 Is there a message for western markets from Asian price action? Various key Asian markets, including the Chinese Shanghai Composite, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng and Korea’s Kospi, have all struggled to break above key technical levels in recent trading sessions. That stands in contrast the price action in the US (at new highs) and Germany’s [...]
Ether futures set for Chicago Mercantile Exchange launch today February 8, 2021 Crypto at a Glance Happy Monday! And what a happy Monday it is. Bitcoin is back paddling in the warm waters around the $40k level and just closed the week at its highest price in history, Ether’s (ETH) bull run continues apace with prices soaring past $1,700 to new all-time highs, and Cardano (ADA) just [...]
UK firms will have borrowed more than £60bn by the end of 2021 February 8, 2021 UK firms will have borrowed more than £60bn by the end of the year, having borrowed £35.3bn in 2020, and been forecast to borrow a further £26bn this year, according to the EY Item Club. Following the UK’s third national lockdown, EY predicted that many businesses are unlikely to start making inroads into repaying their [...]