China’s stockmarket shows signs of life

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

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

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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

Emerging markets came into focus over the course of 2025 amid a volatile global backdrop. Heightened geopolitical tensions and uncertainty over US trade policy caused periodic bouts of weakness, as in

Relax about Relx: “All eyes are on software and legal firms like Relx,” says Chris Beauchamp of investing platform IG. AI start-up Anthropic has parked “its tanks on their lawn in a clear threat to th