Will platinum and palladium rise?

THREE YEARS OF EUPHORIA IN STOCKS AND OTHER ASSETS HAVE INVESTORS BRACING FOR TROUBLE. HERE’S WHAT TO DO IF BAD NEWS ARRIVES.

“Emerging markets are shooting out the lights,” says Leslie Norton for Morningstar. The diverse grouping, which ranges from Latin American commodity producers to Asian technology powerhouses, has lagg

The autumn Budget was less the promised “reboot of UK capital markets” and “more a light dusting of the keyboard”, says Tim Focas in City AM. A three-year stamp duty holiday for new listings is all ve

Barrick break-up: Barrick Gold, the $63bn Canadian gold miner, may break itself up to prevent rivals from plundering its most prized assets, according to Reuters. One half would focus on Barrick’s val

The UK government’s new pay-per-mile tax on electric cars will also apply to plug-in hybrid cars, chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in her long-awaited Autumn Budget. The new charge is set to cost an

Budget fiasco: That the whole of Wednesday’s Budget was erroneously published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) an hour before chancellor Rachel Reeves (pictured) stood up to give her spee