Market Insight

DAILY MARKET REPORT – 10/04/2025Markets showed yet more downside in yesterdays session as the trade war with China escalated with both sides adding further additional tariffs to each other.That was of course until after market close when President Trump announced that, with the exception of China, all those countries that…

DAILY MARKET REPORT – 09/04/2025More downside seen yesterday as, despite financial markets initially showing some promise of recovery, it seems China are set on holding firm with their 34% retaliatory tariffs and so the additional 50% from the US has come into effect.Overnight Asian financial markets have shown decline, as…

DAILY MARKET REPORT – 08/04/2025A weak start to the markets at the open seen yesterday but strengthened later on in the session as countries started to accept the US standing strong on its tariffs and comments appeared to show that most were seeking to ‘do a deal’ in order to…

DAILY MARKET REPORT – 07/04/2025Markets had a further hard push on Friday as fears resulting from the outcome of President Trumps tariff announcement took hold.Over the weekend plenty of companies were making decisions, with JLR announcing they would pause exports to the US for a month. Countries around the world…

DAILY MARKET REPORT – 04/04/2025As we know when Donald Trump speaks it usually has a big impact and his tariff announcement on Wednesday evening has done exactly that.Whilst financial markets saw declines, mostly on the back of concerns for the impact on the economy, investment and jobs being affected, energy…

DAILY MARKET REPORT – 03/04/2025Yesterday saw an unwinding of the previous sessions upward movement.With little progress on peace talks, publicly at least, the rumour mill of what may or may not be included in any deal made seems to have run out of steam for now.Instead, President Trump has been…

DAILY MARKET REPORT – 02/04/2025An upward jolt seen yesterday, perhaps as the market starts to think about the fundamentals of what is ahead.As we reach the end of winter and start to think about the plan to refill gas storages, there is quite a hill to climb in order to…

DAILY MARKET REPORT – 01/04/2025Welcome along to April.A muted start to the week seen in yesterdays session as the various recent news stories give us little to progress the market in either direction.Concerns around gas storage refilling ahead of next winter continue to play out with a third of capacity…

DAILY MARKET REPORT – 31/03/2025A quiet end to a week that saw little movement overall seen on Friday.Whilst much of the focus is on progress around peace talks, it seems clear that there are gaps that seem difficult to close in those ongoing discussions.President Trump appears to be losing patience…