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“Perhaps he’ll do an Elvis and have a fatal heart attack on the loo,” a friend muttered this week. Like most investors, she is having trouble getting used to the idea that the US president has become

Companies in the news and how they were assessed

Goldbugs are not ideal dinner guests. They are rarely in a particularly cheery mood: one pro-gold article I recall from the optimistic 2000s was entitled We’re freaking doomed, dude. That conjures up

“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

Netflix grows earnings: Revenue in the fourth-quarter at streaming giant Netflix increased nearly 18% to $12.05bn from a year earlier and net income rose 29% to $2.24bn. This was thanks to growth in s

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