Shares and the stockmarket

“Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try...

While looking into the exact composition of a financial market index may seem no more relevant to some investors than a debate over how many...

China’s move to let its currency, the yuan, slide by some 3% to 4% against the US dollar has potentially huge ramifications for investors’ portfolios,...

It is very rare for this column to be lost for words but it does sometimes happen. A recent presentation at a school in Brighton,...

Markets continue to focus on when the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England will raise interest rates, by how much and for how...

The scrapping of a proposed $2 billion design for the 2020 Olympic Stadium in Tokyo and a corporate accounting scandal at the giant...

Employees trading stock in their employer can be a powerful share price catalyst.

‘There are many reasons insiders sell, but only one reason they buy.’...

According to Benjamin Franklin “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest” but it is another American who currently dominates markets’ attentions, at least when...

You may well be aware of the extraordinary movement seen over the past month – indeed the past year - in the Chinese equity market....

At face value owning shares in a company should be fairly straightforward. An investors buys stock at the prevailing market value, handing them rights to...