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

I’ve never had much luck with metals. In 1981, around a year after the last structural gold bull market peaked, I was given a small krugerrand. Aged seven, having noted that it was not made of chocola

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

Issue of the week: the weaponisation of finance ...

Last year was a “tumultuous” one for Latin America’s biggest economy, says The Economist. Former president Jair Bolsonaro was jailed in November for plotting a coup, prompting “punitive tariffs” from

“Perhaps he’ll do an Elvis and have a fatal heart attack on the loo,” a friend muttered this week. Like most investors, she is having trouble getting used to the idea that the US president has become