Platinum holds promise for patient investors

I’ve never had much luck with metals. In 1981, around a year after the last structural gold bull market peaked, I was given a small krugerrand. Aged seven, having noted that it was not made of chocola

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Chasing growth: Swedish asset manager EQT is buying London-based Coller Capital for up to $3.7bn to profit from the boom in the “secondaries” market, says Neil Unmack on Reuters Breakingviews. When in

The future of Greenland has dominated the headlines in recent weeks, but increasingly the real action, both commercially and militarily, is taking place hundreds, even hundreds of thousands of miles a

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The US dollar has slid to a four-year-low. The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of major trading partners’ currencies, has dropped 12% since the start of 2025. Sterling now bu