Statist attack on italy’s stocks

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

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

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

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

Investors in Indonesia are licking their wounds after the worst sell-off in Jakarta since the 1998 Asian financial crisis. Last week, index compiler MSCI warned that the country risks a downgrade from

“Japan has been the world's financial shock absorber for a generation,” says Nigel Green of deVere Group. No longer. Two decades of ultra-low interest rates have pushed Japanese investors overseas in