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Issue of the week: currency gyrations The “debasement ...

“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

Andrew Van Sickle: A recurrent theme this year, and the subject of one of your key research papers, was drawing parallels between the dotcom bubble and this AI boom. What’s your take? Is this a case o

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 dollar is the cornerstone of US power… it is the main weapon used by the US to maintain its power… [But] as soon as the political leadership decided to use the US dollar as a political instrument

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