Why it’s time to bet on israel

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

IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO DISCERN THROUGH the black clouds billowing from bomb craters in Tehran, but Iran has spent most of the 21st century as the region’s rising power. Until recently, things had re

Stocks are living their best life while the dollar is having its worst year since 1973

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

When the president of the US is a former television show host, it’s no wonder that world politics resembles a bad am-dram production with a furious director. “I’m not happy with Israel… I’m not happy

“He came, he bombed, he ended the war” – or so Donald Trump wants the world to believe, says The Economist. Two days after US bombers struck Iranian nuclear facilities, Trump announced a ceasefire in