Shares and the stockmarket

It is hard to believe but President Donald J. Trump will be almost half way through his first term in office by November 2018,...

With the Nikkei 225 and Topix stock benchmarks touching twenty-year peaks, the yen rising against the dollar and the economy putting together its best streak...

It is hard to believe that the 19th Communist Party Congress in China, the fall and arrest of a President in Seoul and a hung...

While by no means conclusive in laying to rest the threat posed by anti-EU parties, the Dutch, French and German elections of 2017 are encouraging...

Elections in Mexico and Brazil will help to set the tone in Latin America in 2018, especially if those countries follow Argentina’s political drift to...

He may have been in charge of foreign policy under George I, but eighteenth-century politician Charles Townshend is best known as ‘Turnip’ Townshend for his...

The kerfuffle caused by the Paradise Papers is unlikely to die down for some time as it shines a light on corporate behaviour that is...

While a hike in interest rates from 0.25% to 0.5% might not seem like a momentous event, it is the first increase by the Bank...

A couple of weeks ago this column mentioned a throwaway comment provided by a shrewd fund manager that: “There is no value in momentum [stocks]...

Monday 19 October 1987 will live in the memory of investors as the day of Black Monday stock market crash. But this is not the...