Shares and the stockmarket

Markets remain fixated by the European Central Bank's (ECB) decision to launch a Quantitative Easing (QE) programme last Thursday (22 January) and the results of...

The markets continue to digest the implications of last week's decision by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to stop interfering in currency markets and let...

There are many different schools of thought when it comes to investing. Some portfolio builders prefer to go with the flow and follow momentum in...

As stocks begin 2015 with a whimper and bond prices rally yet further, markets seem newly preoccupied with the twin threats of a growth shock...

As one year ends, clients and advisers often sit down to review portfolios and see what lessons can be drawn with regard to strategy for...

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's decision to buy back the remaining War Loan is the one policy to emerge from the Autumn Statement (3...

Oil continues to make all the headlines, as the price of a barrel of Brent crude hovers around the $70 mark. That is some 40%...

As the Paddington Bear film hits the nation's cinema screens, Darkest Peru is going to attract a fair bit more attention than usual and from a financial...

After October's wobble, global share prices appear to be finding their feet again, while Government bond markets also seem to be enjoying renewed calm, as...

Last week's (31 Oct) monetary policy announcement from the Bank of Japan electrified the Tokyo stock market, pushed yields on ten-year government bonds ever...