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“Was that it?” A friend who used to be in the oil business and has seen quite a few spikes in the oil price was underwhelmed by Monday’s increase of around 7% in the price of Brent crude. The move was

Gold soars, funeral plan fraudsters charged, the best investment funds and the end of the £100 limit for contactless payments

One of the least financially literate people I have ever met was a friend who as a teenager accumulated an unarranged overdraft of £50 on her newly opened bank account. Having been told she must recti

Some good news for the US economy. The Federal deficit shrank for the fourth month in a row. Employment is picking up. The economy is booming. The Fox News team is comfortably convinced that when the

Here’s a “market paradox”, says Craig Mellow in Barron’s. The more the US government “trash talks Europe, the better it is for the euro”. The single currency has gained 13% against the greenback since

Gold has dominated the headlines recently, but we were on the story early. We’ve had gold stocked up in our hidey-holes for more than two decades. Mostly, we ignored it and it ignored us, which was fi