Investment briefing
Towards the end of January, shares in GameStop, an old-school American video games retailer, were driven higher by a cohort of (largely) young day traders looking to make a killing, armed with laptops and furlough cheques.
Investment briefing
Electric Dreams
After a rather stifling start to the summer (hosepipe bans at the ready), the weather finally broke in mid-June, to the thrum of heavy downpours and a series of violent thunderstorms across the UK.
Investment briefing
The approval of vaccines to counter the misery of COVID-19 has driven equity markets higher into the New Year as a hint of, whisper it, ‘normality’ can be glimpsed on the horizon.