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Hong Kong’s markets are “booming”, says Bloomberg. The city was the world’s busiest market for initial public offerings (IPOs) in the first half of the year, with $45bn raised, compared with just $6.3
Things haven’t been great for the UK stockmarket over the last two decades. Indeed, the City has been a “serial underachiever”, especially when compared with the US, says Andrew Jones, a portfolio man
The last 50 years have been kind to investors in real terms. Everything made money: equities, bonds, property and gold. All investors had to remember was not to buy high and sell low. But that hasn’t
UK equities are having their time in the sun. The FTSE 100 recently hit an all-time high of 9,000, driven by a broad recovery in equity prices. To put it another way, the rally wasn’t just driven by a
The US-centric nature of the world of equity investment often masks important trends or milestones elsewhere. Few noticed this week, for instance, that the Topix, Japan’s broad stockmarket index, reac