Europe

'Can-kicking, bare bones agreement'

Uncertain outlook

New regime begins in December 2019

With the European Central Bank set to stop new quantitative easing at the end of 2018 and market chatter about an interest rate increase in 2019, have prospects for the spluttering European economy and financial markets taken a turn for the worse?

The European economy has proved a major disappointment this year. Investors started 2018 full of optimism.

Many investors spend their time trying to find the next disruptor, the next Uber or Netflix. Identifying the 'Next Big Thing' can make for a very profitable investment, as those companies have shown. However, predictions can more often be wrong than right....

Outperformers of last five years likely to struggle

FTSE 100 down 1.4%

'Diminishing regulatory barriers'

Few regions have experienced as bifurcated an economic landscape as Europe over the past decade.