Venturing into the dragon’s den

Sherman McCoy, the lead character in the 1987 book The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, was described as a “master of the universe” due to his role as the highest-earning bond trader at his broke

It’s been a tough two decades for UK-listed firms. BP, Shell and HSBC have dropped out of the ranks of the world’s largest listed companies. Britain’s current largest firm, AstraZeneca, doesn’t even m

The combined market capitalisation of the Magnificent Seven group of US mega-cap stocks – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta , Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla– is now over $22trn, meaning these seven stocks ma

Every generation gets one industrial revolution. Ours is AI – still novel, not yet fully understood, but certain to become so embedded in life that we’ll forget how we ever worked without it. The ques

Companies in the news and how they were assessed

Emerging markets (EMs) are back. The MSCI Emerging Markets index delivered a 31% return over the first ten months of the year, compared with just 18% from the developed markets-focused MSCI World inde