2024 proved to be surprisingly robust for global financial markets, driven by better-than-expected economic activity, particularly in the United States, momentous growth in machine learning and associated technologies and a corresponding spike in the share prices of the major industry participants.

Let’s all enjoy Christmas but also do something positive for the less fortunate.

As 2024 progresses, so too does financial market confidence improve, such that some asset prices have been increasingly robust.  Buoyant enthusiasm is welcome but seems at odds with some of the more pressing issues of the world.