Are we past the peak of uncertainty or is this just the beginning?

“Dr Pangloss, welcome to Wall Street,” says Randall Forsyth in Barron’s. Voltaire’s “oblivious optimist” would feel right at home as stocks in the US and Asia hit record highs, even as Russia sends dr

“Two huge heavyweights” are in the ring. “I haven’t had so much fun since the ‘Thrilla in Manila’,” an unnamed former US official tells the Financial Times. The world’s two superpowers are squaring of

The US government has shut down again. But even as the shutdown approached, stocks rose. How could they go up while the single biggest player in the whole economy withdraws? Because maybe it doesn’t m

“America has progressed from infancy to senility without passing through a period of maturity.” So said a character in one of Ian Fleming’s short stories in 1960. He was wrong then – or, was he, as so

China’s stockmarket is booming, but renewed animal spirits are not yet helping the wider economy, says Lee Ying Shan for CNBC. More than $3trn in market capitalisation has been added across mainland a

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