Goodbye Mervyn Percival. Mervyn Percival passed away just before Christmas. He was the Chairman and founder of Cornmarket, one of the countries leading Brokerag... Continue reading
ECB release half a Trillion just in case… The ECB released a further 500 billion, Bank of England 10 billion and the Fed 20 billion This was done as a follow on the the USA's li... Continue reading
predictions for 2008 I have five minutes to go before I have to leave so here are a few of my predictions for 2008 I had mentioned buying northern rock s... Continue reading
Citigroup stock goes down further as COO Robert Druskin resigns. Citigroup (I earlier mentioned how the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Abu Dhabi are bailing them out) lost another 46 cents on their share pr... Continue reading
IBA invites you to… never mind…actually, we changed our mind. (PIBA & IBA merger is cast out) The Irish Broker Association (IBA) made an approach to the Professional Insurance Brokers Association (PIBA) whereby their 300 strong m... Continue reading
The Japanese Yen isn’t finished with you yet. The Yen is often seen as a risk thermometer. And as of late is has been on the increase. In recent years international investors borrow... Continue reading
Inflation in China 2007 In an article written last week called 'whats all the fuss about the US dollar' a point was mentioned regarding the fall of the Dollar... Continue reading
The Vultures are here…. When the government raised the bar for stamp duty to €317,500 house prices took a jump and suddenly every house was valued at €317,500.... Continue reading
Talk the Talk (part 2) As part of the ethics in writing this article I made a decided point of not actually reading my initial article so there is no way of k... Continue reading
Talk the talk and walk the walk (economically speaking) I wrote an article back at the end of 2005 called 'the changing face of the mortgage market' and I sent it off to a few newspapers and ... Continue reading