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Weekly Market Report 23 October 2020

By Seven Insurance, October 23 2020

Uncertainty looms surrounding the result of a proposed US stimulus bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was...
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Weekly Market Report 16 October 2020

By Seven Insurance, October 16 2020

Boris Johnson announced a new three-tier system of regional Covid-19 restrictions on Monday following cases reaching...
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Weekly Market Report 09 October 2020

By Seven Insurance, October 09 2020

President Trump returned to the Oval Office on Wednesday, less than a week after contracting Coronavirus...
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Weekly Market Report 02 October 2020

By Seven Insurance, October 02 2020

President Trump has made multiple headlines this week, firstly on Sunday after the New York Times reported that...
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Weekly Market Report 25 September 2020

By Seven Insurance, September 25, 2020

On Tuesday Boris Johnson announced a new series of restrictions to combat rising Coronavirus cases in England...
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Weekly Market Report 18 September 2020

By Seven Insurance, September 18, 2020

UK and US Central Banks set their monetary policy this week. The Bank of England unsurprisingly kept rates...
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Weekly Market Report 11 September 2020

By Seven Insurance, September 11, 2020

Volatility in the tech sector continued this week, taking the froth out of some rich valuations. Investors are...
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Weekly Market Report 04 September 2020

By Seven Insurance, September 04, 2020

UK house prices hit an all-time high this week as pent-up demand fuelled the largest monthly rise in 16 years...
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Weekly Market Report 28 August 2020

By Seven Insurance, August 28, 2020

At the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium (held virtually for the first time this year), the Federal Reserve...
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Weekly Market Report 21 August 2020

By Seven Insurance, August 21, 2020

The S&P 500 (an Index of the 500 largest US stocks) closed at an all-time record high on Tuesday...
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Weekly Market Report 14 August 2020

By Seven Insurance, August 14, 2020

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that a locally developed vaccine for Covid-19 has been given...
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Weekly Market Report 07 August 2020

By Seven Insurance, August 07, 2020

For the first time in history, the price of Gold topped $2,000 an ounce as investors continue to look to the safe...
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Weekly Market Report 31 July 2020

By Seven Insurance, July 31, 2020

The decision to reinstate a two-week quarantine on travellers returning to the UK from Spain was...
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Weekly Market Report 24 July 2020

By Seven Insurance, July 24, 2020

Earlier this week, European leaders crossed the Rubicon and agreed an unprecedented economicl...
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Weekly Market Report 17 July 2020

By Seven Insurance, July 17, 2020

We remain in a relative news vacuum, but reporting season is slowly getting underway, starting with US banks...
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Weekly Market Report 10 July 2020

By Seven Insurance, July 10, 2020

For those of you who’ve spent the last few months of lockdown wishing you had a second house by the sea, now is the...
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Weekly Market Report 03 July 2020

By Seven Insurance, July 03, 2020

The UK Government confirmed a local lockdown in Leicester on Monday, marking the first such lockdown in the UK..
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Weekly Market Report 26 June 2020

By Seven Insurance, June 26, 2020

Markets faltered this week over concerns of a second wave of infections spiking in various global locations...
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Weekly Market Report 19 June 2020

By Seven Insurance, June 19, 2020

A new Coronavirus outbreak in Beijing has worried markets this week as the number of cases in the new cluster...
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Weekly Market Report 12 June 2020

By Seven Insurance, June 12, 2020

Data released this week shows that the number of Covid-19 cases has increased in 21 US states over the last fortnight...
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Weekly Market Report 05 June 2020

By Seven Insurance, June 05, 2020

Market strength has persisted this week, driven in part by some encouraging improvement in the most...
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Weekly Market Report 29 May 2020

By Seven Insurance, May 29, 2020

Markets have been strong this week with a bounce in value stocks as the hope of economies opening back up is prevalent in investors’ minds...
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Weekly Market Report 22 May 2020

By Seven Insurance, May 22, 2020

UK markets responded favourably on Monday to news that Oxford University’s vaccine trial was producing promising results. Drug-maker AstraZeneca...
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Weekly Market Report 15 May 2020

By Seven Insurance, May 15, 2020

On Sunday, Boris Johnson unveiled a conditional plan to reopen society, including permitting people in England to spend more time...
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Weekly Market Report 07 May 2020

By Seven Insurance, May 07, 2020

The Prime Minister is expected to deliver an address to the nation this Sunday to unveil how the government intends to unlock the UK economy...
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Weekly Market Report 01 May 2020

By Seven Insurance, May 01, 2020

In his first national address since recovering from COVID-19, Boris Johnson announced that the UK has passed the peak of infections, but he will not...
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Weekly Market Report 24 April 2020

By Seven Insurance, April 24, 2020

The price of oil moved negative on Monday for the first time in history. The price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark...
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Weekly Market Report 17 April 2020

By Seven Insurance, April 17, 2020

The US Federal Reserve is taking an unprecedented move and buying high-yield bond exchange-traded funds. Lifting the lid on the jargon...
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Weekly Market Report 09 April 2020

By Seven Insurance, April 09, 2020

Boris Johnson was moved to the intensive care unit on Tuesday after his Coronavirus symptoms worsened. The Prime Minister was admitted to hospital on...
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Weekly Market Report 03 April 2020

By Seven Insurance, April 03, 2020

In a press conference on Tuesday, President Trump finally acknowledged the grim reality of the threat the Coronavirus poses to the US, stating that in the...
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Weekly Market Report 27 March 2020

By Seven Insurance, March 27, 2020

In a press conference on Monday evening, Boris Johnson announced the closure of all non-essential shops and told all UK citizens to stay at home unless...
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Weekly Market Report 20 March 2020

By Seven Insurance, March 20, 2020

This week, the UK government took the extreme measure of closing all schools from today until further notice. Some schools will be kept open...
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Weekly Market Report 13 March 2020

By Seven Insurance, March 13, 2020

This week has seen palpable fear in equity markets causing a speed and ferocity of decline, the likes of which investors have never had to deal with before...
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Weekly Market Report 06 March 2020

By Seven Insurance, March 06, 2020

Central Banks around the globe have now responded to turmoil in the markets which emerged last week. The US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Canada...
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Weekly Market Report 28 February 2020

By Seven Insurance, February 28, 2020

The Coronavirus wreaked havoc on markets this week with all major equity indices posting dramatic losses as investors try to price in the effect...
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Weekly Market Report 21 February 2020

By Seven Insurance, February 21, 2020

Apple has warned investors that it will miss its revenue forecast for this spring due to the devastating impact of the coronavirus on the Chinese economy...
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Weekly Market Report 14 February 2020

By Seven Insurance, February 14, 2020

The World Health Organisation has named the Coronavirus outbreak COVID-19 as the virus continues to escalate. The number of deaths has now reached 1,367 which...
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Weekly Market Report 07 February 2020

By Seven Insurance, February 07, 2020

The number of deaths and infections caused by coronavirus continues to soar. Two months after the first detected case, the death toll has now risen to 563...
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Weekly Market Report 31 January 2020

By Seven Insurance, January 31, 2020

At 11pm today, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hail the “dawn of a new era” as the UK leaves the European Union after a 47-year membership. Most EU laws...
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Weekly Market Report 24 January 2020

By Seven Insurance, January 24, 2020

As the World Economic Forum was held in Davos this week, trade tensions have risen between the US and the UK. The UK Chancellor, Sajid Javid confirmed plans...
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Weekly Market Report 17 January 2020

By Seven Insurance, January 17, 2020

After Thomas Cook declared bankruptcy last September, Flybe has been rescued from a similar fate by a UK government bailout. Flybe, Britain’s biggest...
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Weekly Market Report 10 January 2020

By Seven Insurance, January 10, 2020

International tensions flared again this week after top Iranian General Qasem Soleimani was killed by US forces in a drone attack at Baghdad airport...
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Weekly Market Report 20 December 2019

By Seven Insurance, December 20, 2019

Andrew Bailey has been announced as the next Bank of England boss this week. The ex-FCA chief is now tasked with steering the world’s fifth biggest...
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Weekly Market Report 08 December 2019

By Seven Insurance, December 08, 2019

Markets wavered temporarily this week as trade tensions flared with China retaliating for US support of protesters in Hong Kong, putting investors in a selling mood...
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Weekly Market Report 24 November 2019

By Seven Insurance, November 24, 2019

The US Senate has unanimously passed a bill this week in support of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. The bill lays out a process for the President to impose...
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Weekly Market Report 17 November 2019

By Seven Insurance, November 17, 2019

US billionaires and a number of economists are on the attack following Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax plan...
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