Editorial

Brexit Continues To Force Radical Changes In The UK
July 30, 2019 08:10 AM AEST| By Kunal SawhneyJohnson Ramps Up Brexit Preparations The United Kingdom is slated to leave the European Union in 94 days, at least till now, three years after the referendum showed the British public wanted to get out the cumbersome agreement that apparently stifl...

Boris Johnson Proposes Immigration Overhaul
July 29, 2019 10:27 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaIn his maiden speech to the House of Commons as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson ignited nationalism in the parliament and promised to make the country the greatest place on Earth and pronounced his ascendancy as the beginning...

How Prudent It Is To Look Beyond Large Caps at London Stock Market For Your Income Portfolio?
July 27, 2019 02:54 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaIncome portfolio strategy is a popular investment strategy used by investment professionals and individual investors alike. The strategy is a semi active one and aims at dividend earnings rather than capital gains as the main source of returns on the...

UK’s Retail Sales Numbers Paint a Gloomy Picture As Compared To The Year 2018
July 27, 2019 02:40 AM AEST| By Hina ChowdharyMounting concern of a gloomy economy ahead, Kantar- a leading global data and consulting company on July 23, 2019, revealed that UK’s retail sales declined by 0.5% on a YoY basis in the 12-weeks ended to July 14, 2019. The latest grocery market figur...

Commercial Property Feels the Brexit Pinch
July 27, 2019 02:22 AM AEST| By Kunal SawhneyBrexit Continues to Dominate the Market The troubles in the property sector in the United Kingdom shows no sign of abating as according to CoStar, a data collection company, the amount spent on deals for commercial property fell to £9.1 billion in...

How Should The Market Brace For The Accession Of Boris Johnson?
July 25, 2019 11:39 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaOn 23 July 2019, the Conservative Party crowned Boris Johnson as the leader of the party after he was pronounced to be the winner of its leadership contest and will become the next prime minister of the country. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, or...

Retail Industry In UK And Growing Need To Reinvent Amid Online Competition
July 25, 2019 03:00 AM AEST| By Kunal SawhneyThe retail industry in the United Kingdom is going through a monumental shift in fundamentals – consumers are making more online purchases at the cost of brick and mortar stores, retailers are making more data-driven decisions, even behavioural data...

Bourses Get A Leg Up Rally Amid Boris Johnson’s Win
July 24, 2019 08:50 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaBoris Johnson secured a vote of confidence from the conservative party members on Tuesday and is all set to succeed Theresa May as next British Prime Minister. He secured a vote of 92,153 of the Tory members, which was twice the votes secured by his...

Dividend Growth Stocks: An Attractive Proposition Amid Uncertainties
July 24, 2019 08:20 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaThe market conditions around the world are full of domestic and geopolitical uncertainties, which is making investors worried over a future downturn or a recession. Experts are fretting about the potential of a large-scale conflict between the United...

ECB Policy Blues At Brexit Turning Point
July 24, 2019 12:11 AM AEST| By Kunal SawhneyThe gradual withdrawal of England from the European Union (Brexit) following a country vide referendum on 23 June 2016, is proving to be a greater unbundling of trouble for both England and the European Union than the opening of the mythical "pandora...

Can Gold Sustain Its Rally After Touching 6-Years’ High?
July 23, 2019 11:39 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaOn 19 July 2019, gold prices hit its highest level in six years, as global factory output slowed and the market debated by how much the Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank, Jerome Powell, would cut benchmark interest rates. Defying popular sentiment of...

Fiscal Risk Report Outlines Some Silver Lining for UK Post Brexit
July 23, 2019 02:25 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaThe British public and lawmakers have again been handed over a report about the state of the British economy in case of Brexit, this time by government authority - the Office for Budget Responsibility in their ‘Fiscal Risk Report’. Leaving without a...

UK Inflation Data: Where Would It Lead The Pound?
July 20, 2019 08:20 AM AEST| By Kunal SawhneyIn the United Kingdom, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported an inflation rate of 2.0 per cent in June 2019, flat versus the previous month. The result was in line with broader market expectation and removed the worry for any rate adjustm...

5 Income Stocks To Add Into Portfolio For The Next Recession
July 19, 2019 08:25 AM AEST| By Kunal SawhneyThe current bull market is longest in the history, and many market analysts forecasted that it could continue for some more time, but certainly one significant correction is ahead in the next six to eighteen months. As an inverted yield curve draw ma...

How Are Emerging Economies Expected To Perform In Current Market Conditions?
July 19, 2019 01:57 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaFrom the early 1990s, the emerging market grew at breath-taking speed all over the world, as they tried to catch-up with the developed world, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into the consuming classes. This all was possible...

Recent Trends In The Oil Market
July 17, 2019 08:20 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaThe global oil market is going through a period of inevitable change and the industry faces a particularly challenging set of obstacles, ranging from the pressure of environmentalists to increasing geopolitical factors. While many oil producing count...

Recession Fear Looming Large On The UK Economy
July 13, 2019 01:28 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaGDP needs to grow by at least 0.1% on a month-on-month basis in June 2019, to avoid a contraction in the second quarter. Growth in May 2019 was better than expected and recorded an increase of 0.3% on a month-on-month basis against a contraction of 0...

Has Recession Started Creeping Into The UK Economy?
July 10, 2019 01:38 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaA recession occurs when an economy contracts substantially for consecutive six-quarters. In case of recession, there would be a fall in following leading economic measures, i.e. contraction in real GDP, falling income and jobs, contraction in manufac...

What does the FCA’s Proposal To Ban Crypto Derivatives And ETNs For Retail Investors Actually Mean?
July 06, 2019 08:55 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the conduct regulator for 58000 financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, has proposed a ban on the sale of crypto derivatives and Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) referencing specific types of crypt...

UK Manufacturing PMI Declines Amid BoE Governor’s Warning Of Cascading Brexit Impact Across The World
July 06, 2019 08:52 AM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaThe looming Brexit uncertainty has taken its toll on the manufacturing and the services sector too, after giving a severe hit to the Construction. According to the latest release, the UK’s monthly Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) declin...
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