FTSE hits new record as global markets edge higher

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• Lacklustre business activity growth continued across the UK service sector at the end of 2025

  80% confidence

• If a credible and structured political transition occurs in Venezuela, enabling US companies to restart oil operations and sovereign debt restructuring, Venezuelan bond prices could experience a sustained rally

  80% confidence

• The rebound in Chinese equities since December has boosted confidence, with many investors planning to stay active until the later-than-usual Spring Festival in 2026

  80% confidence

• We're right back on the AI trade again. The optimism is back for now

  80% confidence

• Tariff anxiety is pulling metal into the US just as supply risks in Chile resurface

  80% confidence

• Trafigura will hold talks with Trump's administration about buying and selling crude from Venezuela

  80% confidence

• US oil companies would spend billions of dollars to take the oil out of the ground in Venezuela

  80% confidence

• Worries about squeezed margins and broader growth prospects contributed to another marked reduction in service sector employment during December

  80% confidence

• Oil companies would be reimbursed by the US government for making investments in Venezuela

  80% confidence

• All of our oil companies are ready and willing to make big investments in Venezuela that will rebuild their oil infrastructure, which was destroyed by the illegitimate Maduro regime

  80% confidence

• The oil surplus in the first half of the year could reach as high as 3m barrels per day

  80% confidence

• Venezuelan oil production could rise from 800,000 barrels a day to 2.5 million within a decade

  80% confidence

• Oil prices will fall to the mid to high $50s for much of this year as a global surplus combines with weak global growth

  80% confidence

• Trafigura would need to see a proper legal framework in place before returning to Venezuela

  80% confidence

• Gold and silver advanced with investors weighing heightened geopolitical risks, with Venezuela adding to risk and investing uncertainty

  80% confidence

• There is another period of oil price softness ahead

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• For global markets, the striking thing was how most assets were almost completely unfazed by the geopolitical risk

  80% confidence

• Silver has benefited from sustained concerns that the US administration could eventually impose import tariffs on the refined metal

  80% confidence

• Initial hopes of a surge in supplies from Venezuela were tempered by the realisation that it would be difficult to rebuild that infrastructure quickly, and without significant cost. In the near-term there may even be disruption to the current Venezuelan supply

  80% confidence

• It's very clear the US government wants the oil to continue to flow. They don't want civil unrest in Venezuela and want gasoline and diesel to enter the country

  80% confidence

• Classic stocks like finance, pharma, big oil and high street retail stalwarts are back in fashion with investors

  80% confidence

• American buyers had become the most serious group in the £15m-plus London property market, with many disillusioned by Trump's presidency

  80% confidence