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Dangerous Policy Making

UK Budget Takeaways: Austerity is “coming to an end”, rather than, as the Prime Minister said, being over 32m people will benefit from a cut in income tax that comes from raising the personal allowances a year earlier than promised. That’s £130 in the pocket of basic rate taxpayer, £1,500 for higher Extra spending almost…

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Markets Talk

Topics include: What can we expect from this Budget? Will there be more help for the failing UK high street? Apple and Facebook’s earnings reports are released. Can the momentum in these US Technology stocks continue despite some poor results elsewhere? What is the outlook for North Sea oil with Shell’s earnings coming out. Are we…

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Spreadsheet Phil’s Budget Smugglers

Yes today is the day that the Chancellor of the Exchequer lays out their spending and tax plans for the years ahead, guiding the economy over the medium term in order to ease the government happily into a stonking majority at the next election. Well that is usually what Budget Day is all about. Today…

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3 Charts and a Radio Show

The S&P500 is now in negative territory for the year. There appears to be no sign of the sell off stopping yet: 1. Short Gamma Our friend @SqueezeMetrics updated his charts. His measure GXV is like the VIX, and suggests where the VIX should be over the next few trading days. It was already elevated…

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What’s Missing?

Several of our red flag indicators are flashing. 1. In May we drew attention to FCA Chief Andrew Bailey’s warnings about ETF Authorised Participants: ‘We know relatively little… about the capacity and willingness of APs to execute their function in stressed conditions where they may be under pressure to tighten their own risk limits.’ And we are now…

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