Justin is one of the most recognisable and trusted market commentators on television, radio, and in the press.
Originally trained as a lawyer, he has observed the retail market industry for 20 years whilst at Barclays Stockbrokers and developed a unique understanding of the market’s roles and benefits for the private investor.
Each week we will bring you Justin’s latest thoughts and commentry.
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Well despite all our enthusiastic festivities, it looks as though 2015 will start in a world of worry. No doubt the newspapers will be labouring on the woes of the world and highlighting all the areas that could possibly go wrong. Such talk was perfectly demonstrated by some of our politicians going on about the ‘flashing lights on their dashboards’. Thank you Prime Minister. I, though, would recommend that we all ignore a lot of this hyperbole and look through this hysteria to what is really going on.
In the past few weeks we have had markets bungee jumping overnight with ‘billions of pounds added/subtracted’ (cross out as appropriate) as the markets leapt around with all the precision of a pinball. Despite news over oil prices, Russian belligerence and anticipated recession, and fears of Chinese slow downs, actually there has been nothing new in the news. What you are seeing and we are all being unnerved by are erratic movements exaggerated by a lack of trading liquidity in stock markets. The underlying truth is that the global economy is growing at around 3% and that should also apply for…
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