What May 2025 Hold?

What May 2025 Hold? January 2025 blog from Therford Hughes

What May 2025 Hold? Firstly, may we wish everyone a Happy New Year. Hopefully, it will be healthy and prosperous too. What may 2025 hold? We start 2025 with ongoing geopolitical uncertainty. The war in Ukraine rumbles on and Israel continues its fight with Hamas and Hezbollah. This is as it was in January 2024,…

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Uncertain Times

Uncertain times in the financial markets.

Covid, Ukraine, Gaza, and the high price of the basics of food and fuel. Public service strikes and disruption to services, hospital waiting lists, illegal immigration, and the inability to find workers willing to work. A slump in stock market values and unusually a collapse in bonds at the same time. Local government operations becoming…

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The Funding Superhero

Rutherford Hughes financial advice superheroes

THE FUNDING SUPERHERO This is at a tale of how help can come from unexpected places. The key is to take advice. You may well be very pleasantly surprised. Mr. Max Profit, business owner, and his Finance Director, Arthur Sixpence, are having a meeting as to how they should fund the much-needed modifications to the…

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