The winners and losers of 2025 It felt ...

“The failure of economists to forecast recessions is virtually unblemished,” notes Prakash Loungani, assistant director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This includes the economists at the IM

In 1972, Yale Hirsch, author of the Stock Trader’s Almanac, devised the January Barometer, which states that as the S&P index goes in January, so goes the year. By 2005, the barometer had claimed a 90

The story of commodities in 2025 was “energy down, metals up hard”, says Ole Hansen of Saxo Bank. Silver and copper are continuing their record-breaking rallies, but the world’s oil men are feeling gl

More than two in five US adults are now classified as obese, and rates are rising across the rest of the world too. It is a chronic disease associated with a costly catalogue of long-term ill health,

The way that central banks responded to the global financial crisis almost 20 years ago is often derided as “printing money” and “debasement”. This shorthand is odd. Whereas a Roman emperor might deba