Can eastern europe’s tiger economy keep roaring?

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine dealt a hammer blow to the Barings Emerging Europe trust. Around 28% of its assets were invested in Russia and instantly became worthless. The share price slumped to barel

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

It is nearly ten long years since the British people voted to leave the European Union. The latest opinion polls show that a majority now believe that Brexit has gone badly. Too much time has been was

Issue of the week: currency gyrations The “debasement ...

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

Last year was a “tumultuous” one for Latin America’s biggest economy, says The Economist. Former president Jair Bolsonaro was jailed in November for plotting a coup, prompting “punitive tariffs” from