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Read moreMonday Musings 19/07/2022
The Rupik household has been struck with COVID. I don’t know about you, but it seems to be everywhere again to me. My son had it over the weekend and will be home for one more day before returning to school. By coincidence the Sunday Financial Times had a fascinating article in it this week about COVID vaccinations; – apparently there is research being done into several vaccines that will tackle all variants of Coronaviruses with a single dose. Ambitious, but a game changer if they can be made safe and effective. There’s also research being done into nasal spray boosters (yummy…not) patches and pills. But these all require huge government investment at a time when we’re already stretched.
Without wishing to be flippant about such a catastrophic global event, Covid did teach us many things. For some, it taught us to re-consider our work / life balance. For others, a complete career change. Many of us found we could work successfully and even possibly more productively from home.
Sadly, there are so many who could not work from home and the negative impact of their loss of earnings was disastrous. More than ever, people are aware of the need to protect their income from temporary loss of earnings caused by accident or sickness or redundancy. There are policies that can offer this protection. You’ve got nothing to lose by speaking to one of our advisers about these if you’re interested in examining your options, but possibly a lot of peace of mind to gain….
So to the markets….
31.12.2021 | 18.07.2022 | % Change | % Change on week | |
FTSE 100 | 7384 | 7248 | Down 1.90 | Up 1.20 |
Dow Jones | 36338 | 31288 | Down 13.89 | Up 2.15 |
Nasdaq | 15645 | 11452 | Down 26.80 | Up 1.79 |
S&P | 4766 | 3863 | Down 18.94 | Up 1.92 |
NIKKEI | 28791 | 26788 | Down 6.95 | Up 0.54 |
Hang Seng | 23398 | 20846 | Down 10.90 | Up 2.70 |
Shanghai | 3640 | 3278 | Down 9.94 | Up 1.55 |
CAC 40 | 7153 | 6120 | Down 14.44 | Up 1.43 |
DAX | 15885 | 13033 | Down 17.95 | Up 1.28 |
Not all of its bleak out there. Sometimes we hear good things in the press. Ok, not often. But sometimes. For example, news came in the press recently that the.
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