Shares and the stockmarket


The race to the bottom begins again

Last week's (31 Oct) monetary policy announcement from the Bank of Japan electrified the Tokyo stock market, pushed yields on ten-year government bonds ever...

Fri, 07/11/2014 - 12:20


It's all as easy as A, B ...and CROCI

Monday's (27 Oct) survey from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) that reveals the fastest sales growth in more than three years for the UK's...

Fri, 31/10/2014 - 12:00


Debt and dollars make for a potent mix

Regular readers will have to indulge this column a little this week, as it returns to two themes which appear here frequently, namely debt and...

Fri, 24/10/2014 - 13:00


Watch out for the canaries in the coalmine

Markets are now wrestling with fears that economic and corporate profits growth will disappoint and do so just at a time when the US Federal...

Fri, 17/10/2014 - 13:00


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