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

“The financial markets are as shocked as anyone else that Donald Trump, against all odds, nominated a serious person to lead the Federal Reserve,” says John Puri in National Review. The White House ha

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

“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

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

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