Chairman’s Blog

September 2018
Looking across the Atlantic, one has to start thinking that Europe is becoming a sideshow to the Pacific Rim countries. Relations between the US, China and Russia are of greater importance to the global economy...

August 2018
The market setback for the technology companies seems mostly to have been driven by a relatively small amount of selling into a market that is suffering from a lack of so-called ‘market makers’. These thin and volatile...

May 2018
Since putting pen to paper in February, there has been a more than usual amount of trivia in the headlines. The global economic expansion has steadied and in many areas, the rapid growth of last year has dropped to more...

February 2018
As many of you know, I have always been fascinated by China, a country that in the Middle Ages led the world in technology and then became paralysed by bureaucracy until the 20th century when ...