The world rediscovers its spirit of adventure

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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Relax about Relx: “All eyes are on software and legal firms like Relx,” says Chris Beauchamp of investing platform IG. AI start-up Anthropic has parked “its tanks on their lawn in a clear threat to th

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

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

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