Annual inflation in the UK as measured by the Consumer Price Index was down to 1.3% in October. While lower oil and food prices contributed to this there are longer term technological and social changes that may be in play, the impact of which will be felt for some years to come.
Three main themes are likely to shape the global macro landscape in 2015: disinflationary growth, monetary policy divergence and growing emerging market differentiation.
For much of the second half of the year, developed market credit spreads saw measured widening from their trough during the summer. In contrast, emerging markets debt seemed fairly insulated from this trend, given already wide spreads.
A financial adviser who was sentenced to four years imprisonment after he conned elderly clients out of £130,000 has been banned from the industry for life.
In the past economists and investors have fallen foul of trying to predict the future by extrapolating existing trends. This is in danger of happening again as markets have become used to central banks intervening each time markets stumble, and to observing the ensuing rally.
Given the significant recent decline in oil prices and subsequent market volatility, it is worth considering what this means for investors in US equities.
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According to Chris White, head of UK equities, Premier Asset Management, the UK results of next years election are very difficult to predict.
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The U.S. economy continues to exhibit strong momentum, although the same cannot be said for other parts of the world. Looking ahead, investors should expect significant divergences within the global economy.
The FCA has been heavily criticised over its handling of plans to conduct a discovery exercise into exit charges on historic life and pensions policies which caused significant short term damage to a number of companys share prices.
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