PIWORLD Investor Podcasts The Market Call - Week Ending 17th January 2025
00:00 Introduction
01:04 The Return of Bond Vigilantes
04:05 UK market news
06:24 National insurance rises
07:55 Progressive client news - Petro Matad (MATD), Xaar (XAR) and Gamma (GAMA)
11:04 Upcoming macro news
- UK Unemployment figures (Tues 21 Jan)
- UK Average earnings (Tues 21 Jan)
- Japanese inflation data (Thurs 23 Jan)
- Bank of Japan interest rate decision (Fri 24 Jan)
13:21 Outro
About:
Gareth Evans has 25 years’ research experience covering the Technology sector. An Oxford University graduate, Gareth qualified as an accountant before starting his research career covering the Pan European Chemicals sector at the American Investment Bank Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ), later acquired by Credit Suisse. He then moved to cover the Technology sector at ABN AMRO, Canaccord and at Investec for eleven years, where he was Joint Head of Research. Gareth has received numerous awards for his work, including being voted techMark Analyst of the Year.
Jeremy McKeown has a degree in economics and an MBA. He has been working in the City for over forty years, both as an investment manager and at a number of leading investment banks including Merrill Lynch and Investec. His passion is for meeting, investing in and advising small and mid-sized businesses – and his previous roles give him a vast array of experience on which to draw. Jeremy’s role at Progressive includes helping clients with their investment cases, providing high quality content to our subscriber base and giving the team a valuable macro “framework” within which to evaluate and position our customers’ propositions.