Statist attack on italy’s stocks

Issue of the week: are markets too complacent? ...

Companies in the news ...and how they were assessed

Those who dislike luxury stocks cite similar criticisms to those who dislike the clothes many of them make. They are too expensive, fashionable one minute and out of style the next. For European inves

London’s Aim market turned 30 this month, but few are celebrating. The 1990s dream of an “accessible” venue to help small UK firms grow has gone largely unrealised, says Richard Evans of Fidelity Inte

In the world of bonds and fixed income, US billionaire Howard Marks is a titan. After making a name for himself at Citicorp in the 1970s and then TCW Group in the 1980s trading distressed bonds, he fo

Oil shock averted? World leaders and commodity traders have spent the past fortnight on edge as the long-running Iran-Israel conflict turned hot. Matters came to a head at the weekend when the US dire