Get ready for an age of uncertainty and upheaval

Global markets and the new illiberalism

THREE YEARS OF EUPHORIA IN STOCKS AND OTHER ASSETS HAVE INVESTORS BRACING FOR TROUBLE. HERE’S WHAT TO DO IF BAD NEWS ARRIVES.

Matthew Partridge: It has now been nearly 25 years since you coined the term Brics for Brazil, Russia, India and China, and the four nations have embarked on very different trajectories. Which one do

“Emerging markets are shooting out the lights,” says Leslie Norton for Morningstar. The diverse grouping, which ranges from Latin American commodity producers to Asian technology powerhouses, has lagg

China’s rising status as a nuclear power should keep Russia and its threats to use weapons of mass destruction in check, experts tell Newsweek

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the