Blight of the bond bubble blow-up

The last 50 years have been kind to investors in real terms. Everything made money: equities, bonds, property and gold. All investors had to remember was not to buy high and sell low. But that hasn’t

Issue of the week: populism and central banks ...

Things haven’t been great for the UK stockmarket over the last two decades. Indeed, the City has been a “serial underachiever”, especially when compared with the US, says Andrew Jones, a portfolio man

It has been a week of highs and lows for Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba. On Wednesday he secured a coveted US trade deal. US president Donald Trump had threatened Japan with tariffs as high as

Latest major sentiment survey paints a somewhat less rosy picture

Issue of the week: Europe’s capitulation Trump’s ...