Latest News from Tatton Investment Management: Weather matters

4 August 2023, 12:00am

Expect the unexpected
Compared with July’s buoyancy, the first week of August has demonstrated markets’ continued fragile balance between optimism and the fundamentals of valuations. 

July review – markets driven by optimism
July brought sunshine to investors, even if underlying earnings fundamentals only improved in analysts’ forecasts. 

European energy – safer but not safe
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Expect the unexpected
July turned out to be another good month for portfolio investors in 2023 as markets rose across the board, leaving only commodities and property investors in the red for the year. For more details on the month’s returns picture, please refer to our July review in the main part of this week’s edition. 

That positivity feels somewhat remarkable, given that not much changed in the underlying economic fundamentals and that companies (in aggregate) reported lower profits compared both to last quarter and also a year ago. Nevertheless, general investor sentiment improved as inflation - the biggest headwind of the last year – continued to decline. Meanwhile, market analysts cheered on the widespread ‘earnings beats’ from quarterly corporate earnings reports.

These two points capture what is going on in the markets at the moment, and also in our view, why stock and bond markets started August with a wobble. At the moment, it is not actual improvements in fundamentals that are pushing markets higher, but an expectation or hope that they will do so in the near future.

Falling rates of inflation across the board and worldwide has investors increasingly convinced that central banks will no longer feel obliged to push rates and yields higher still and thereby limit the threat to stock market valuations that drove them down last year, when the rate hiking started. The reporting noise from the ongoing quarterly reporting season of company results left them with the impression that earnings downgrades are equally a thing of the past and while not going up significantly at the moment, at least they are not going down either. When bond yields suddenly ticked up over the week, for reasons that were not immediately obvious, equity valuations reacted with a mild correction. The end of the week’s US jobs data signalled that perhaps a cooling of underlying inflation from the tight labour markets, and equity markets began to relax again.

So far so good, but as regular readers will know, we like to look a little deeper, to understand whether the prevailing trends have the potential to be sustained going forward.

Therefore, first a bit of an insight into how the quarterly phenomenon of ‘earnings surprises/beats’’ comes about and what the specific developments of the current round of quarterly beats actually tells us and then some more on the current interaction between bond and equity markets.  

Over the past weeks the market commentariat featured regular statements like these:

 “A lot of these beats were priced in and as a result there’s not a lot of excitement,” said Michael Casper, an equity strategist with Bloomberg Intelligence.

Unsurprisingly, given such comments, many of us find the earnings season newsflow confusing. Equity strategists, analysts and journalists talk about company results in terms of “beats” and “misses” which generally refer to profits but can also apply to sales revenues. 

In the US, the quarter’s reports fill the financial news headlines and the general tone is rarely anything other than positive. Thursday night’s release of Apple’s results was a case in point. Apple told us that their profit was nearly 5% higher than analyst forecasts for the April-June quarter and yet the share price fell by 2%. The bad news was that sales in the past quarter may have beaten (lowish) expectations but in absolute terms were still down on the January-March quarter and are expected to continue to decline in this July-September quarter.

So what they give with the one hand, they take with the other. When we look back at the record of how this reporting season has gone, Apple will add to the aggregate "earnings beat” but the offset is that there is a hit to next quarter’s expectations.

This pattern gets repeated quite often. Companies work hard to show profit in their past performance but it is generally in the management’s interests to push down expectations for the near future, to shine with better than thus expected results at the end of the next quarter - especially if the past quarters performance can be explained by “one-off” factors.

To evidence this behaviour, we have looked at the path of analysts’ aggregate earnings forecasts leading up to and then beyond the end of each quarter (over the past 20 years, with the GFC and pandemic periods removed). The chart below shows the average track of aggregate estimates for the US Factset Index (around 3000 US listed stocks, market-cap-weighted, and similar to the Russell 3000). The horizontal x-axis provides the timeline with ‘0’ marking the beginning of the actual reporting period start for the previous quarter. ‘-1Q’ therefore describes expectations as they stood at the beginning of a given quarter. The vertical y-axis shows how the aggregate earnings moves compared to the level as of the last calendar day of the quarter being forecasted. (So we can see that the analysts were predicting 2023 Q2 earnings to be 9% higher on December 31st 2022 than when the reporting was about to start).
 


When analysts start their forecast (looking a year and a bit forward) they are too optimistic so the forecasts fall at about 2% per quarter. Equally, in the final phase after the quarter has actually happened and the companies start reporting their results, it turns out that analysts end up being too pessimistic. Companies generally manage to surprise them by about 2% in total. 

But here’s the rub; as companies give us the good news about the quarter just gone, they give us some “bad” outlook news about the upcoming quarter. This, on average and perhaps unsurprisingly, knocks the analysts estimates down by an additional 2%. The quarter just before the results has an average decline of 4% in total, 2% of which is regained in the results period.

This current reporting quarter has had some differences (a sharper deterioration during the early months of the year but has followed the median path pretty well. So, as usual, results are beating the analyst final expectations but are not beating compared to what we might expect at the beginning of the quarter. 

One might think the analysts would leant and adjust but perhaps there is an incentive to be slightly pessimistic, especially as most analysts have more buy-recommendations than holds and sells.

The fact that neither this quarter’s earnings - nor the guidance for the next - is special is a problem for the market’s price given the expensive valuations. Expensive valuations usually occur when the next few quarters can be expected to show strong growth. We have had strong growth in the post-pandemic period partly because nominal revenues have been supported by both real economic growth and by high inflation. Now, a sharp decline in the pace of inflation isn’t being offset by any substantial rise in real growth. 

In summary then, all the reported ‘beats’ are not telling us that the outlook is improving, but at best that it is not getting worse, or in other words, ordinary earnings growth which would struggle to justify July’s valuation dynamics.

When growth and inflation are slow, help has often come from falling bond yields. Equity valuations are supported as dividends can look attractive in comparison. But that is not what happened this week. As already noted US bond yields have risen (which means prices have fallen).

The catalyst for bond price falls may have been the Fitch rating agency’s downgrade of the USA’s long-term foreign currency credit rating to AA+ but, since US treasuries are NOT issued in a foreign currency, this shouldn’t matter greatly. In addition, the much more influential Standard & Poors has had their USA rating at AA+ since 2011.

It is more likely that the price falls are due to a non-market sentiment specific situation of “more buyers than sellers”. The US treasury surprised markets by selling substantially more new long-term bonds than expected, just as corporate borrowers have been shifting from high-cost short-term borrowing to longer-term financing (as we noted last week) and therefore – like the government - also looked for more buyers of long term bonds.

The struggles of the US bond market can have quite a big impact on the equity market, and this might occur even if the Federal Reserve were perceived to be close to finishing their tightening cycle. The yield curve inversion (the difference between short rates and long-term rates) has been extreme for some time, possibly because investors appear to have been convinced that a recession might be imminent, or that elevated inflation is only temporary. Well, no recession has occurred and many of the other market metrics (such as corporate credit spreads) have been indicating quite the opposite – that recession risks have been receding.

The bond sell-off may not have an enormously long way to go but investors are still very wary after the huge capital losses of 2022. It may be that recent bond positivity is evaporating which could see the US 10-year bond yield head above the 4.3% highs of the last year, an outcome that oddly might raise recession risks substantially.

Here in the UK, we are no stranger to bond price falls since last autumn’s mini budget disaster. The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted by a majority to raise rates by another 0.25%. Two independent members wanted 0.5%, the other two independents wanted no rate rise. The MPC said the current stance was “restrictive” but reiterated that “further tightening in monetary policy would be required”.

Although their forecasts tended to indicate that they saw inflation as difficult to shift, investors seem to perceive that the risks no longer as heavily skewed. Growth here and in Europe (extremely important for the UK) seem to be on a slower path than the US, especially recently. Although the UK government bond yield curve is inverted, UK (and Euro) bonds look cheaper than those in the US. All areas have seen some price falls but, when comparing bonds of similar maturity, UK gilts and Euro government bonds have been relatively stable.  

The mentioned US non-farm payroll data of new job created over the month (being slightly weaker and below 200,000 new employees) has helped alleviate some of the pressure on US yields this Friday afternoon. Nevertheless, we suspect the technical expensiveness of US 10-year bonds could still have some further follow-through. It’s not the end of the world but equities could lose a bit of momentum. 

So, while we very much welcome the positive returns July’s upbeat sentiment brought for investors, this first week of August has once again demonstrated the fragility of optimism driven valuations and as such we expect markets and investors’ fortunes to remain in fine balance and therefore volatile and sensitive to anything that has the potential to sway the current optimism one way of the other. 

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New article from Tatton Investment Management: Sunlit uplands or COVID gorge?

19 October 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Watching and waiting

12 October 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Baffling market optimism

2 October 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: A question of time horizons

25 September 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: A recovery on hold

18 September 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Taking a step back to look forward

14 September 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Frictions and contradictions

7 September 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Market dynamic of a K-shaped recovery

1 September 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Big tech gets bigger while the Fed takes the easy opt

24 August 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Fed leaves bond investors with that sinking feeling

17 August 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: COVID II the sequel - as scary as the original?

10 August 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: July brings consolidation

2 August 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Sunshine and shadows

27 July 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: PPE = Politics, Pressure and Economics

20 July 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Discomfort of disappearing safety nets

13 July 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Fast and freewheeling

3 July 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: H1 2020 offers meaningful lessons

29 June 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Support balances increasing strains - for how long?

22 June 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Equity valuations follow bond valuations' lead

15 June 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Stock markets suffer altitude sickness

8 June 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Markets are enjoying an uncomfortably benign pandemic

1 June 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Optimistic markets despite second wave lockdown threa

26 May 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Just as the sun comes out, clouds appear in the East

22 May 2020, 12:00am

New video from Tatton Investment Management

18 May 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Us-China cold war: Threat or blessing?

11 May 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Most welcome, if feeble, signs of pulling together

4 May 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Opening-up will be slower than locking down

27 April 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: V or U-shaped recovery scenarios - the jury is out

20 April 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Lifting lockdown remains a delicate balancing act

20 April 2020, 12:00am

New video from Tatton Investment Management: Stock markets between hope and despair

15 April 2020, 12:00am

New video from Tatton Investment Management: Is now the time to invest?

13 April 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Fading threat of financial crisis re-opens old divide

6 April 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Unprecedented quarter or calm before the storm?

30 March 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Extraordinary: bear and bull market all in one

24 March 2020, 12:00am

New video from Tatton Investment Management: Why have stock markets appeared to rally on the lock-do

23 March 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Government ordered recession

19 March 2020, 12:00am

New video from Tatton Investment Management: Confusion reigns in Capital Markets

18 March 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Why aren't you doing something?

17 March 2020, 12:00am

New video from Tatton Investment Management: From euphoric recovery to depressed tumble

16 March 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Notes on a crash: the short, the medium and long term

13 March 2020, 12:00am

New video from Tatton Investment Management: Panic equity selling or panic raising of precautionar

12 March 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Forced sellers and other distractions

9 March 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Dark times or glimpse of light at the end of the tunn

6 March 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: News of a reverse oil price shock rattles markets bey

2 March 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Coronavirus - hitting too close to home

28 February 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: This week's market correction requires perspective

26 February 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: COVID-19 and the reaction of markets to pandemic fear

24 February 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: US markets hit new all-time highs and a 'bump'

17 February 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: V-shaped recovery for Valentine

10 February 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Markets show no fear - should they?

3 February 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Looking through the noise of the week

27 January 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Short break to Goldilocks?

20 January 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Parallels and differences to January 2018

14 January 2020, 12:00am

Appointment of Joint Broker

13 January 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: So far so good

8 January 2020, 12:00am

Tatton: Woodford & M&G suspensions have driven IFAs to us

6 January 2020, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: 2020 starts with a Trump card

23 December 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Goodbye 2019 - welcome 2020 and a new decade!

16 December 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Brightening horizons - 2020 Outlook

8 December 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Can Trump derail the 2020 economic upturn?

2 December 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Markets are driving the markets

25 November 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Markets pause for reality check

18 November 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Swilling cash eases the market mood music

11 November 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Recession concerns retreat

11 November 2019, 12:00am

Interim Results for the six months ended 30 September 2019

4 November 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Crucial October period safely behind

28 October 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Slowly turning

21 October 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Brexit breakthrough versus Brexit fatigue

17 October 2019, 12:00am

Trading Statement

17 October 2019, 12:00am

Acquisition of Sinfonia Asset Management Limited (SAM)

14 October 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Market sentiment rebound

7 October 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Stall speed economy fears spreading

30 September 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Ominous US-Dollar strength

23 September 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Diverging economic trends - catalyst for trade war re

16 September 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Market sentiment rebound

9 September 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Choppy water but no storm, yet...

2 September 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Fattening 'tails'

27 August 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Populism politics reversing austerity?

19 August 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Market spat between bond and equity markets

11 August 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Bond markets unnerve equity markets - again

5 August 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: The Elephant and the Little Old Lady

29 July 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: The quick and the not-so-quick

22 July 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: ...'Twere well it were done quickly

15 July 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Positioning for a summer of wait and see

8 July 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Liquidity drives stock markets to new highs

1 July 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: The middle of the year - a tipping point?

24 June 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Battle of the ‘doves’

17 June 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Mixed messages

10 June 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: The return of the central bank put?

3 June 2019, 12:00am

Appointment by Tenet Group

3 June 2019, 12:00am

Appointment by Frenkel Topping

3 June 2019, 12:00am

Preliminary Results For the year ended 31 March 2019

3 June 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Bond rally musings

27 May 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: It is getting warmer

20 May 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Market support for Trump or unwarranted equanimity?

13 May 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Geopolitics re-enter market stage

7 May 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Central banks disappoint expectations

29 April 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Waning market stimuli put stock markets on notice

23 April 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Spring time from here?

16 April 2019, 12:00am

Trading Statement for 12 months ending 31 March 2019

15 April 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Brexit in-limbo aside sentiment is improving

8 April 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Happy 10th birthday, choppy bull market

1 April 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management:29 March 2019 – quarter end

25 March 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Brinkmanship and extensions

18 March 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Bits & Pieces

11 March 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: ECB stimulus U-turn leaves markets unimpressed

4 March 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: £-Sterling ‘applauds’ prospect of Brexit delay

25 February 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Progress?

18 February 2019, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Investment perspectives for different Brexit outcomes

15 November 2018, 12:00am

Interim Results for the six months ended 30 September 2018

15 October 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Autopsy of a stock market sell-off

1 October 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Poor politics containing bond market risks?

27 September 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Brexit clamour vs. real market new

7 September 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Interesting times ahead

31 August 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: “Not the end of the world”

24 August 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Steady markets vs. noisy politics

17 August 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Political strongman tactics come home to roost

10 August 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Summer heat wave makes way for return of political he

3 August 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: A gentle deceleration?

27 July 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Hot air for a hot summer?

20 July 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management:Earnings are growing, why worry?

13 July 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Hard Brexit demonstration potential?

6 July 2018, 12:00am

Notice of Annual General Meeting

6 July 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: It is getting hot

29 June 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Digesting or consolidating?

27 June 2018, 12:00am

Preliminary Results for the year ended 31 March 2018

22 June 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Fragile recovery

15 June 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: No surprises

8 June 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Delicate equilibrium

1 June 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Ignore politics at your peril

25 May 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: GDPR? No - far more interesting news!

18 May 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: What's the economic reality of this week's news?

11 May 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Batten-down-the-hatches?

4 May 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Past the peak?

27 April 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Confusing signals?

20 April 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: A mixture of messages

6 April 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Could do better

6 April 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Peaking, plateauing or dimming – and how about that

29 March 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: End of a stormy quarter

23 March 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Now we know it's risky!

16 March 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Back to Normal?

9 March 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Tariffs to growth

2 March 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Time to take some profits

23 February 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Change of direction or gradual normalisation?

16 February 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Breathing easier for the moment

9 February 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Meteoric stock markets crash bac

6 February 2018, 12:00am

Tatton Investment Management's Stock Market Correction Assessment

2 February 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Good news turns bad news - again!

26 January 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Surprises

19 January 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: US$ weakness versus Bitcoin and Carillion

12 January 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Bullish sentiment rings alarm bells

5 January 2018, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Encouraging kick-off

15 December 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: 2017 - taking stock

8 December 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Progress versus Bitcoin

5 December 2017, 12:00am

Interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2017

1 December 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Sudden, but not entirely unexpected

24 November 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Invincible markets?

17 November 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Yield-curve flattening: a bad omen?

10 November 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Nervous investors herald more volatile markets

3 November 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: UK rate rise: ‘one and done’ or beginning of rate

27 October 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Trick or treat season

13 October 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: All-time highs and Q3 results outlook: Reasons to be

6 October 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Bad news – good news

29 September 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Movements

22 September 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: QT to reverse QE and 2-year transition period to soft

15 September 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: BoE guides for year-end rate hike - Bluff or real?

8 September 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: ‘Back to school’ amidst hurricanes, earthquakes

1 September 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Bad news, Good news

25 August 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Summer low or summer lull?

18 August 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: More sellers than buyers

11 August 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Stocks take note of North Korea crisis - or do they?

4 August 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Consolidated base but momentum dwindling

28 July 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Summer thoughts about the ‘longer term’

21 July 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Summer lull - delayed

14 July 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Pre summer-holiday investment check

7 July 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Global growth ploughs on while markets take a breathe

23 June 2017, 12:00am

New article from Tatton Investment Management: Quo Vadis Britain?