Esg: the revolution is over

US hedge fund Saba Capital has again failed in its latest attempt to take over an investment trust for its own ends. Last week, shareholders in Edinburgh Worldwide (LSE: EWI) rejected Saba’s proposal

Much of southeast England spent 12 January, and days afterwards, suffering water shortages. Extreme weather conditions brought on by Storm Goretti, combined with creaking water infrastructure, left te

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

The world’s first stockmarket index, the Dow Jones Transportation Average, was created in 1884 by Charles Dow. It consisted of just 11 companies. Dow didn’t know it at the time, but he had created wha

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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