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Parents of young children, and pet owners, often start to worry when they have been enjoying an unusually long period of silence. Investors are experiencing a similar sensation. Markets seem calm, wit

If the most prized commodity in the 20th century was oil, in the 21st it is data. It is both our humdrum reality and our anxious obsession. It tracks everything from which online advertisements we are

“There is always someone worse off than you,” as Aesop reminded us. That also means there is always someone to feel superior to. In post-war Europe, Italy was the country everyone made fun of, dismiss

Did you sell in May and go away this year? I do hope not, because we have often pointed out that seasonal investing is nonsense. The notion that stocks are weaker between May and September is thought

Companies in the news and how they were assessed

When bad news is just bad news not good news for markets