Worldwide Financial Planning

The time to secure a deal before the transition period ends is diminishing rapidly and the issues involved will require more time to be considered than is currently available.

It was a clear demonstration of markets' break with reality as they got excited in the first half of the week on rumours of vaccine breakthroughs and extra stimulus spending, before giving up hope in the second half.

The UK economy has fallen into its deepest recession on record

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Lower infection rates have seen lockdown rules relaxed, but this has been followed by spikes in infection that have required a step back.

The Q1 figures were bad but managed to capture only a few weeks of the shutdown. The Q2 data fully captures when restrictions were at their most severe in Europe and the US and the record falls in GDP have been worse than predicted.