Market Update to 4th March 2022. This week the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia unsurprisingly dominates. Optimism caused by the initial failure to capture the capital, Kyiv, quickly has given way to the fear that Russia will, but slowly,

Market Update 25th February 2022 This week Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to declare a full-scale military assault on the Ukraine, although his decision to do so was quite evidently made some time ago. The ending of the large-scale monetary

Weekly Update 21 February 2022 This week has been another volatile week for global markets as the stand-off between Russia and Ukraine and its western allies continues. There is much speculation about whether Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will order an

Market Update 11th February 2022 This week the inflation melodrama continued, with US inflation numbers reaching record levels. This set off another round of speculation over interest rates with talk of an emergency rate hike being needed over the weekend.

Market Update 4th February 2022 This week’s decisions from the Bank of England and European Central Bank were in line with expectations, but the language used to explain them has pushed up the forecast for rate rises. The difficult position

Market Update 28 January 2022 This week our attention turns to the tension along the border of Russia and Ukraine. This doesn’t strictly count as news – the build-up of Russian forces has been going on for many months and

Market Update 21st January 2022 This week was another tough one as stocks continued to sell-off. The reason is the same as last week; inflation keeps rising, so expectations of how aggressively central banks will hike interest rates is a

Market Update 14th January 2022 This week saw some calm restored to markets after a rocky start to the year. The shock announcement that the US Federal Reserve may accelerate tapering its balance sheet, sucking out some of the money

Market Update 07 January 2022 Welcome back to the first of this year’s market updates from Private Office Asset Management. This week there was no gentle easing back into the swing of things for markets which kicked the new year

Market Update 24th December 2021. This week the Omicron variant of Covid-19 continues to spread rapidly but it’s just like getting the common cold in most people and the vaccine, including booster jabs, mean very few people are suffering severe