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Fighting off the British Malaise |
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23 August 2010 |
Justin Urquhart Stewart is one of the most recognisable and trusted market commentators in the media. Originally trained as a lawyer, he has observed the retail market industry for 20 years whilst at Barclays Stockbrokers and developed a unique understanding of the market's roles and benefits for the private investor.
Justin Urquhart Stewart is one of the most recognisable and trusted market commentators in the media. Originally trained as a lawyer, he has observed the retail market industry for 20 years whilst at Barclays Stockbrokers and developed a unique understanding of the market's roles and benefits for the private investor. Justin provides financial advice to clients of Kester Cunningham John Financial Planning LLP.
After several weeks' sojourn in South Asia I came back refreshed and reassured that actually the global economy is in quite rude health. It is only when one lands back in the UK that the pall of determined pessimism starts to flow back across you. I had forgotten our astonishing ability to not only assume the worst outcome as the most likely but also our trenchant views towards normally rejecting any form of positive prognostication. Now admittedly our American cousins can often be accused of the complete inverse, generally seeming to be more bullish in their attitude to the future over just about everything. As we all know, realism is somewhere in the middle, but at least the Americans seem to have a more sunny if sometimes unrealistic disposition in contrast to our own Lutheran air of undefined guilt and an inevitability that the worst may occur |
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