Merry Christmas to all Financial Orbit readers

Merry Christmas to all Financial Orbit readers...

I appreciate your readership and support...and you know by now to keep in touch at all times - including over the Christmas and New Year period - with my thoughts and musings to go to my Twitter profile @financial_orbit. 

Chris Bailey

Founder, Financial Orbit 

Stories we should be thinking about

Stories we should be thinking about

As it is Christmas Eve I will make this brief...

Lots of interesting thoughts about 2018 here with a couple of
my favourites being...

Meanwhile @callum_thomas posted this useful guide to spotting
a bear market. Not going to be an easy 2018!

Backing up bond markets are going to be one of the more influential
elements of in the 2018 financial market make-up I believe...

Meanwhile a couple of days after I read in UK economic statistics
publications that "The final estimate of third quarter growth in 2017
also revealed that British households funded their spending by saving
less" I would expect nothing less!

Suffice to say low savings are not good and this is augmented by another
statistic which came out on Friday that it was ‘the first time households
have been net borrowers for four successive quarters since records began
in 1987’. Ouch!

To read the rest of the Stories we should be thinking about click here for free access!

I wrote a piece titled...

"Tesco's early Christmas present"

...which was uploaded just now to the ShareProphets website.  A link to the piece (free sign-up) is here.