Shares and the stockmarket

Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) have the nickname of ‘the widow maker’ because so many traders have come unstuck trying to call the top in the...

The American politician John Connally packed a lot into his life, including a rare switch from the Democratic to the Republican Party, but he is...

All four leading US stock market indices – Dow Jones Industrials, S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite and Russell 2000 – all racked up a string of...

With the FTSE 100 trading above 7,700 and the FTSE All-Share also setting new highs just under the 4,250 mark, investors are off to a...

After ending 2017 on a hot streak, with a string of consecutive closing record highs, the FTSE 100 stands above 7,600 and sits within barely...

After last week’s attempts to learn key lessons from 2017, this column will now turn its attention to the year ahead. In the (unfortunate) absence...

There can be no denying 2017 was an eventful year and making money was not entirely straightforward, even allowing for Bitcoin’s surge into the stratosphere....

March 2019 is drawing ever nearer but the Brexit picture is still unclear, even after Prime Minister Theresa May’s intervention in the Brussels-based negotiations with...

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...