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Mark Thomas

Hardman & Co Monthly January 2017

Feature article:
Big Drivers for the Big Companies
By Nigel Hawkins, Hardman & Co
Despite all the hullaballoo of the Brexit vote and the subsequent election of Donald Trump as the next US President, the UK stock market prospered last year, especially in the latter few months of 2016. The combination of a depreciating currency – making $ earnings more valuable in relative terms - and the Trump emphasis on infrastructure expenditure drove the stock market higher.
As such, the FTSE–100 record was broken on several occasions at the turn of the year. Apart from a short blip in February 2015, the previous record dated right back to the turn of century, over 17 years ago. Since that exhilarating period, which preceded the collapse of the dotcom boom, the stock market has changed fundamentally – many famous names of the past have been extinguished…
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