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Colin Iveson retweeted
We are about to see a massive take-off in Risk Assets.
Just when everybody is Fearful 😉
Nasdaq will soar. Same will small caps.
And so will Crypto. Crypto Altseason!
Massive bottom - and the rally will be driven by (the expected) decline in DXY and Bomd yields.
Coming 2-3 months will be extremely Bullish.
Bears will capitulate and Bulls will grow arrogant- right into the REAL TOP!
Now sit back. Get the popcorn out.
And watch the market play with investors emotions 😉
Colin Iveson retweeted
There were five slave trades. You were taught about only one. 🏴🇬🇧
One. The Atlantic. Twelve million Africans shipped to the Americas. Britain banned it in 1807, then hunted it for sixty years.
Two. The Barbary trade. A million Europeans taken to North Africa. Britain bombarded Algiers in 1816.
Three. The Saharan trade. A thousand years of caravans north across the desert. Britain had its northern end banned. Tripoli, 1857.
Four. The East African trade. Twenty thousand people a year through one customs house. Britain forced the market shut. 5 June 1873.
Five. The Ottoman trade. Raiders sold Eastern Europeans south for three hundred years. Britain made the Sultan ban it in 1854.
It cost sixty years and two thousand sailors. Nobody else fought all five. 🙏🇬🇧
It isn't over. Mauritania only made it a crime in 2007. Fifty million people are in slavery today.
Someone has to remember who started the fight. ⚓🇬🇧💪
Colin Iveson retweeted
My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph
Buy a print of my cartoons at telegraph.co.uk/mattprints
Original artwork from chrisbeetles.com
Colin Iveson retweeted
Rising welfare bill set to ‘swallow’ stealth tax revenue bit.ly/4BzR8al
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Chancellor U-Turns on Pledge to Bring Welfare Bill Down order-order.com/2026/10/29/c…
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Volkswagen is already down 14,800 employees this year.
Then came a €5.9 billion quarterly operating loss, a €31 billion cost program…. and now we have the CFO saying, “We cannot afford to lose any time.”
I’m sorry, but that doesn’t sound like a company done reducing headcount.
MORE VW Layoffs!
Volkswagen to cut additional 50,000 jobs as part of restructuring to streamline its product lineup.
The company said its supervisory board approved a major restructuring plan, and in a subsequent statement it announced the job cuts that would bring its total workforce reduction expectations to 100,000, the author says, noting VW also intends to cut its holdings and reduce its model lineup by roughly 50% by 2035.
- per Bloomberg
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Is this what you want #FBPE?
Your privacy completely gone?
Brussels wants access to the private messages of all Europeans:
buff.ly/0qGm9Jz
Colin Iveson retweeted
Indeed. This is what poorly thought through regulation does. This set of changes has made us poorer. This will particularly hit young people. Governments doing real damage.
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🚨NEW: A UK bank chief executive, reacting to John Healey's decision to raise the bank's profit surcharge said:
"Taxing the engines of growth to reduce VAT on gherkins is end-of-Rome level of stupidity"
[@FT]
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‘John Healey, if you’re listening, where’s my breathing space?’
Business owner Paul Bowen has criticised the Chancellor’s promise to give ‘breathing space’ through measures in his Budget.
#budget #businesses #costofliving
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Now we can see the OBR and HMT Red book. The MOD faces a real term CUT to day to day spending of nearly 0.5% (RDEL) in 27/28. That’s money we spend on training, ammunition, maintenance and operations. So the Chancellors son in the Reserves will have even less training and ammo.
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Big row potentially brewing on defence…
Tories alleging that Healey - the man of principle who quit over DIP - might actually be *cutting* defence spending
In the next two financial years, the budget for the MOD will be £1bn a year less than Rachel Reeves planned when the DIP was published in June.
The total departmental spending can be calculated from the Budget Red Book pages 145-147. When compared to the DIP settlement, the Tories claim it shows that Labour are cutting £1bn a year from the MOD budget for the next two years.
Why? It appears that they are forecast to spend less than expected on pensions. Rather than the MOD being allowed to reuse this Resource Department Expenditure Limit, the Treasury has kept it
Cartlidge: “This is a complete dereliction of duty from the Chancellor”
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Israel's President Herzog is pushing for a government led by Netanyahu for the next two years, in exchange for his resignation at the end of his term and a full pardon in his trial - Israel's Channel 14 News
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BREAKING
The OBR suggests that successive increases in the national living wage and the employment rights act will hit jobs
It says the employment right act will have a ‘negative economic impact’ and hit businesses through ‘increased uncertainty, lost flexibility and higher Labour related costs’
It says that these will ‘more than offset’ any potential increase in productivity
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fees like lots of fiddling, short-term things, new complications - a 'young entrepreneurs allowance', 'starter ISA', different business rates exemption threshold for retail, leisure & hospitality ... etc . I don't hear a clear, coherent vision or a simplification of tax system
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Here's the real story of this Budget, the can being kicked down the road. This Labour government is apparently planning spending cuts on most areas of public service spending of 2.6% per year between 2028-29 and 2031-32.
Pull the other one. It's got bells on.
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The number of UK businesses facing financial distress has hit its highest level in more than 20 years.
Insolvency specialists BTG's Red Flag Alert report revealed that 738,144 businesses were in significant financial distress in the third quarter of 2026, the highest number since its began in 2004.
Separate research from Novuna Business Finance found that 86% of small businesses fear that Budget announcements will negatively affect their finances and growth prospects and only 26% expect their business to grow this year.
Healey's budget should roll back the Starmer-Reeves tax attacks on business if it is to have any positive effect on economic growth.
