The France Show by Kelly Roberts

Spanish-speaking migrants in Spain are eschewing the British bars and embracing the Mediterranean diet while expressing a desire to reverse Brexit. While many British expatriates living in Spain enjoy the comfort of familiar surroundings, a significant number of migrants are committed to integrating into their adopted country. These migrants prefer the Mediterranean diet over fish […]

Another year is nearly over with a new one about to begin and while the financial outlook for 2019 looks unclear, one thing we can say with some certainty is that the financial markets have been anything but boring during 2018. Volatility has been at the fore, lately mainly as a result of political uncertainty in Europe and the UK, and the American/Chinese trade war.

On the monetary front, the belief is that US interest rate expectations are peaking and that we will possibly have two more hikes in 2019 at 0.25% each. With little chance of interest rate rises in Europe this will mean little respite for hard pressed savers.