Issue of the week: currency gyrations The “debasement ...

The US dollar has slid to a four-year-low. The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of major trading partners’ currencies, has dropped 12% since the start of 2025. Sterling now bu

Goldbugs are not ideal dinner guests. They are rarely in a particularly cheery mood: one pro-gold article I recall from the optimistic 2000s was entitled We’re freaking doomed, dude. That conjures up

Companies in the news and how they were assessed

Chasing growth: Swedish asset manager EQT is buying London-based Coller Capital for up to $3.7bn to profit from the boom in the “secondaries” market, says Neil Unmack on Reuters Breakingviews. When in

Netflix grows earnings: Revenue in the fourth-quarter at streaming giant Netflix increased nearly 18% to $12.05bn from a year earlier and net income rose 29% to $2.24bn. This was thanks to growth in s