Market Outlook December 2011
The past six weeks have seen plenty of action. Britain had a somewhat half-hearted public sector strike.

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Market Outlook October 2011
The past month has seen continued volatility in equity markets and a continued flight to safety.

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Market Outlook May 2011
The FTSE-100 index has been trading over the past month between circa 5,850 - 6,100.

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Market Outlook April 2011
The key factor in assessing the outlook for the world economy and equity markets over the next few months is the price of oil.

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Market Outlook March 2011
The past month has been dominated by the upheavals in the MENA region (Middle East & North Africa).

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Market Outlook February 2011
We expected 2011 to be another tough year for the UK economy, and so it is proving.

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Market Outlook December 2010
Sentiment in financial markets over the past month has been dominated by the Eurozone’s debt problems.

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Market Outlook November 2010
The Comprehensive Spending Review turned out much as expected and was welcomed by rating agencies.

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Market Outlook October 2010
Despite some anti-capitalist ranting from Vince Cable and continued anti-bank threats from politicians of all parties over the Conference season, the UK equity market has had a good month.

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Market Outlook September 2010
There are signs that the flight to safety in UK markets which characterised the summer months may be ending.

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Market Outlook August 2010
As suggested in last month’s Market Outlook, the FTSE-100 Index proved to be oversold and has rallied from 4,806 on 1 July, to just over 5,400 on 09 August (the top end of our expected trading range), before drifting back to circa 5,300 today.

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Market Outlook July 2010
The past month has seen a flight to safety in financial markets. This has been prompted by some disappointing numbers coming out of America, growing concerns of the possibility of a double-dip recession...

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Market Outlook April 2010
It has been another good month for financial markets. The FTSE-100 index hit a new 18-month high of 5,780, thus exceeding the 5,700 level we projected last September, basing our estimate on the reverse head and shoulders pattern that the market had just completed.

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Market Outlook May 2010
There are times when a month can seem like a year. In the past month we have seen Greece nearly go bankrupt (its debt was downgraded to junk status and the yield shot up in a few days from less than 7% to 12.7%).

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Market Outlook April 2010
It has been another good month for financial markets. The FTSE-100 index hit a new 18-month high of 5,780, thus exceeding the 5,700 level we projected last September, basing our estimate on the reverse head and shoulders pattern that the market had just completed.

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Market Outlook March 2010
The equity market has enjoyed a very strong rally over the past month. The FTSE-100 index has risen by over 11% to circa 5,650, despite the continuing uncertainty as to both the political and economic outlook.

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Market Outlook February 2010
The past month has seen leading equity markets retreating... However, everyone can benefit from it.

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Market Outlook December 2009
The pre-budget report was something of a non-event.

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Market Outlook November 2009
The UK equity market continues to move ahead against the still grim economic backdrop.

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Market Outlook October 2009
September is often a bad month for financial markets, but this year all the major markets apart from Japan continued to rise

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Market Outlook September 2009
UK financial markets remained firm in August.

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Market Outlook August 2009
World equity markets have rallied strongly over the last month.

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Market Outlook June 2009
More ‘green shoots’ of recovery have been appearing over recent weeks both here and in America.

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Market Outlook May 2009
The past month has seen a marked improvement in sentiment in world equity markets.

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Market Outlook March 2009
The continuing flow of panicky economic, corporate and financial news has finally driven equity markets below support levels.

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Market Outlook February 2009
The Christmas rally in the UK equity market, which carried the FTSE-100 index up to 4,638 on 06 January, has been reversed in the face of continuing bad news, but the index has remained comfortably above 4,000.

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Are there bears in the woods?
Whatever happened to the bear market? A matter of weeks ago we were in the depths of the credit crisis with bank shares and general market uncertainty driving down UK share prices, those clients brave enough to look at their portfolios were asking the obvious question, "We've bailed out of property funds, should we be doing the same with our equity holdings?"

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Sucessful Investing In 2008
Successful investing in 2008 will require investors to make good calls on a wide range of issues, including liquidity, earnings, inflation, currency, and regulatory decisions, according to research published today by leading investment house, Standard Life Investments.

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