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ANGLES.
Every Sunday, Anglia Advisors founder Simon Brady CFP® CETF® recaps the week in financial markets.
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Episodes
ANGLES.Big Tech/AI Massacre.
The Federal Reserve was widely expected to hold the Fed Funds Rate steady in a pivotal week where key data releases were set to collide with megacap tech…
ANGLES.Increasingly Grumpy.
Deadly Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia over the weekend and Trump clearly throwing his weight behind Putin by lifting some Russian energy sanctions and shutting…
ANGLES.Joining The Party.
A distinct lack of meaningful economic data or earnings reports during the week put financial markets at the mercy of the newsflow surrounding the Iran war, US…
ANGLES.Complacency?
Over the weekend, Trump killed the tentative Hormuz deal (which had basically just re-stated the previous memorandum of understanding from earlier in the…
ANGLES.Lipstick On A Pig.
Geopolitics was very much on the market’s mind after record electoral successes for extremist parties in weekend German regional elections and attendees…
ANGLES.Quickly Evaporating.
After spending his weekend advocating for the breakup of the United Kingdom and watching golf, Trump resumed his relentless pressure on the Federal Reserve to…
ANGLES.Little Rambo.
After a news-light long weekend, markets woke up on Tuesday to Canada announcing its promised like-for-like retaliatory tariffs on many US goods while at the…
ANGLES.Get Smart.
The shortage of any important news over the weekend was highlighted by the fact that the story of Trump’s Lake Ontario stunt grabbed the headlines even as…
ANGLES.Too Much To Handle.
Following a weak-volume, low-volatility trading week in the stock market that nevertheless solidified August’s gains and a generally quiet weekend on the…
ANGLES.Dancing In The Dark.
Following Trump’s latest flip-flop over the weekend as he continued to desperately search in vain for an off-ramp to the highly unpopular war that he started…
ANGLES.Poking The Bear.
Traders were very much on edge all weekend, bracing for a frenetic week with multiple impactful earnings reports, a Fed interest rate-setting meeting, tariffs…
ANGLES.Raising The Temperature.
“Not a drop of oil will leave the Strait of Hormuz”, according to Iran on Sunday as the so-called “three-week skirmish” approached its five-month anniversary…
ANGLES.In Tatters.
The US/Iran ceasefire memorandum is obviously in tatters. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, prompting a reinstatement of the blockade by Trump who also briefly…
ANGLES.Bull In A China Shop.
After successfully fixing the World Cup over the long weekend, Trump is finding Iran to be far less willing than FIFA to bend to his every whim and certainly…
ANGLES.The K Is Getting Steeper.
The truce between the US and Iran came under severe stress over the weekend with both sides firing on one another and each blaming the other. But there was…
ANGLES.Chip-Wreck.
Over the weekend, we were treated to the bizarre sight of the US and Iran delegations chummily sitting down together in Switzerland against a backdrop of the…
ANGLES.Banana Skin Potential.
A 60-day extension of the ceasefire, a conditional reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and a suspension of the US blockade was announced on Sunday but it seems…
ANGLES.Back In The Driving Seat.
Alive and well, the US/Iran war, which we were told would last about four weeks, entered its 100th day over the weekend despite weeks of multiple fake reports…
ANGLES.Sit Back And Relax.
Following another weekend of zero trustworthy information on the war and peace front, financial markets were hoping to be able to focus their attention for a…
ANGLES.Half Full.
Trump and Rubio spent last Saturday teasing that a US/Iran agreement including a re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz was “95% done” and was hours away from…
ANGLES.TACO or NACHO?
Another weekend, another complete lack of progress or even any useful information related to the Iran war as the paralysis continued with both sides wasting…
ANGLES.Meaningless Drivel.
Trump decided over the weekend that he“didn’t like” Iran’s response to the US proposal to end the conflict but yet again there was little of substance…
ANGLES.Shooting Back.
A potentially blockbuster week laced with pivotal earnings reports from almost $30 trillion-worth of S&P 500 names including five of the Magnificent Seven, key…
ANGLES.Happy Clappy.
To the surprise of almost no-one, the fleeting US/Iran talks in Pakistan over the weekend were a dismal failure. Sometime in between attending UFC fights…
ANGLES.Scrambled.
A clearly exasperated Trump put out a series of unhinged expletive-ridden social media posts over the weekend threatening the destruction of civilian…
ANGLES.Chain Yanked.
Over the weekend Trump threatened to massively raise the stakes by bombing Iranian energy plants if the Strait of Hormuz (which had been closed for 24 days and…
ANGLES.Bumpy Ride.
Global energy markets braced for another week of turmoil after a weekend US attack (“for fun” according to Trump) on Iran’s vital oil export facility on Kharg…
ANGLES.Pity Party.
The US and Israel teamed up to launch a large scale attack on Iran over the weekend killing many hundreds including the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei…
ANGLES.Overturned.
US markets were closed on Monday for Presidents’ Day after an unusually uneventful weekend on the newswires. Asian and European equities were quiet, but gold…
ANGLES.Hiding Out.
A jam-packed week of major economic data and more earnings reports began on Monday with Japanese stocks reaching all-time record highs after the weekend’s…
ANGLES.Teacher’s Pet.
The weekend’s appalling events in Minnesota provoked Congressional maneuvering that triggered the very real risk of another federal government shutdown by the…
ANGLES.Smorgasbord.
Trump weaponized tariffs again over the weekend but this time in order to pursue his global territorial ambitions. He proposed tariff-based sanctions on allied…
ANGLES.Flood The Zone.
Three potentially significant market-impacting stories developed over the weekend. * Firstly, Trump’s desperation to do away with Fed chairman Jerome Powell…
ANGLES.Back To The Grind.
The weekend newswires were obviously dominated by the abduction of Nicolas Maduro and his wife during a large-scale deadly US military attack on Venezuela…
ANGLES.Unanimously Bullish.
Another holiday-shortened week began with Trump holding an apparently chummy meeting in Florida with Zelensky followed by a cozy phone call with Putin, but the…
ANGLES.Giddy Heights.
The stock market was starting to run out of ammunition when it came to any meaningful remaining economic data releases this year with just PCE inflation and…
ANGLES.Vigilantes.
The last full trading week of 2025 followed a weekend which saw a temporary spike in the odds on the “other Kevin”, Warsh, being nominated by Trump as the next…
ANGLES.This Could All End In Tears.
The major highlight of the week was always going to be the final Federal Reserve meeting of the year and the Fed Funds Rate decision announcement with…
ANGLES.A Degree Of Calm.
After seven straight months of S&P 500 gains for the first time since 2021 carrying the index back to within 1% of more new all-time highs, solid Black Friday…
ANGLES.All The Heavy Lifting.
As a rough November moved into the home stretch, the mood brightened for stocks as a holiday-shortened but data-packed week kicked off on Monday following a…
ANGLES.Rollercoaster.
Well, I did warn you with my closing line of last week’s recap. The biggest news story of an otherwise generally quiet weekend was that, barely a month after…
ANGLES.Lurking In The Background.
Faced with rapidly escalating public fury aimed at all sides over the shutdown, Senate Democrats blinked first in the standoff over the weekend, allowing a…
ANGLES.AI Nosebleed.
It was a light weekend for disruptive news which included no progress whatsoever in a resolution of the government shutdown, now in its second month and set to…
ANGLES.Best Of All Worlds.
China and the US may have reached a “substantial framework” of some kind of trade agreement, according to breadcrumbs laid over the weekend by Trump, who was…
ANGLES.No Horror Show.
There was nothing but tumbleweed over the weekend in regards to any resolution of the government shutdown. Israel resumed its deadly bombing of Gaza with the…
ANGLES.A Touch Of Vertigo.
Fourth quarters have traditionally been very kind to stock markets, with half of the past decade’s returns typically coming in Q4s. Having said that, there was…
ANGLES.Highly Valued.
Following a mostly meaningful news-free weekend, markets headed into the last full week of September, historically the worst week of the year for stock prices…
ANGLES.Fox In The Henhouse.
Trump piled the pressure on the Fed over the weekend, barking that he expected a “big cut” from the central bank after their meeting on Wednesday…
