Many years of hurt, from football to FTSE!

22/06/2016

On the day that I sat down to write this article it was exactly 20 years since England played their first match in the Euro 96 football tournament, which was a rather inauspicious 1-1 draw against Switzerland. The memories of this tournament are fresh in my mind having seen two documentaries about it aired on…

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Do you believe in Santa?

27/11/2014

Well not actually Santa Claus himself (as he does exist of course), but the phenomenon of the ‘Santa rally’, i.e. the propensity of the stock market to rise in the month of December. As we approach the Christmas season, we see widespread use of this term in the financial press to explain rises in the…

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