The year ends much as it began. For the stock market, is almost as if Covid-19 had not happened. Tech is in the ascendency. The FAANGs are threatening new highs….
The jump in infection rates ahead of Christmas is a blow for all governments in the West. In the UK, the rollout of the vaccine will not be as quick…
Daily new infections for Covid-19 reach a high in the US on Friday (254,680, December 18th). And yet, the stock market continues to march upwards. The information technology index hit…
Spiralling infections and record deaths in the US pose a big hurdle for markets. The winter months were never going to be easy, given the complete disregard for social distancing…
The number of daily new cases for Covid-19 has fallen by more than half from the peak in the UK. The national lockdown has broken the back of wave 2,…
The new vaccines for Covid-19 with high efficacy (BioNTech and Moderna) will focus attention on the technology platform (mRNA) and the huge increase in computing power that has underpinned the…
