America’s housing market “keeps humming along”, says Paul La Monica for CNN Business. Builders’ sentiment in October reached its highest level since February 2018, according to the National Association of Home Builders. With the Federal …
Last week we wrote about how the euro was setting up for a buy signal against the yen. I thought I should alert you straight away that the buy signal never came. The market reversed …
Spain is set for stasisSpanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez’s decision to call a fourth election in four years was “a bet that failed”, says The Economist. Sánchez’s socialists emerged as the biggest party, but are …
The yuan has reached a three-month high“China very much wants to make a deal”, US president Donald Trump declared over the weekend. “Their supply chain is all broken, like an egg.” Rumours that a forthcoming …
Japan suffered one of the most spectacular bubbles in financial history. But today, the market is so cheap that it’s practically the opposite of where it was in 1989. Merryn Somerset Webb explains how to …
France is once again offering a yield on its ten-year bonds“The pendulum is swinging back”, says Michael Mackenzie in the Financial Times. Investors have spent much of this year worrying that the US-China trade war …
The streaming wars are great news for viewersA major new US player has arrived in the television and film streaming market – and the UK is launching a service too. Matthew Partridge reports. This week Disney …
For more like this, sign up to Money Morning, our free daily email. In this morning’s Money Minute, we look to the third quarter GDP figure for the eurozone as a whole. Eurozone economic output is …
Kilkenny, with hundreds of tiny pubs, is the ideal venue for talking economics with comediansLast weekend I attended Kilkenomics, the festival in Ireland where comedy meets economics. I thought I’d talk about my weekend there …
Greta Thunberg: just one of many political risksAt our Edinburgh show earlier this year, Ruffer’s Alex Chartres told us that global geopolitics had become a black swan machine. Unexpected things just keep happening. Imagine telling …