The Swedish central bank, the Riksbank, “pioneered” the use of negative interest rates after the financial crisis, charging banks for keeping excess reserves with it from as early as 2009. In early 2015, it cut …
For more like this, sign up to Money Morning, our free daily email. On Thursday this week, the Bank of England announces its latest decision on interest rates. The UK’s central bank has used Brexit uncertainty …
I have some properly useful advice for you this week – and it’s advice you can action right away. First, don’t buy your daughter a pony. I was foolish enough to do so, only to …
A radical break-up of HSBC may be the only way to save the sprawling banking conglomerate. When HSBC announced its third-quarter results on Monday, they were worse than anyone expected. Pre-tax profits were down by …
There are 1.46 billion trades a day on the New York Stock ExchangeDabbling in the world’s biggest stockmarket used to be an expensive hassle. Not any more, says David Stevenson. British investors in overseas stocks …
I keep telling you to get hold of your ticket for the MoneyWeek Wealth Summit. Now that we’re facing a general election – the cherry on the cake, as it were – I think it’s …
uge potential: Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai with the firm’s quantum computerQuantum supercomputers had existed only in the imaginations of physicists, but now Google says it has built one. What are the implications? Simon Wilson reports. …
The passage of legislation ensuring an election on 12 December means that my advice to bet on an election happening in either October or November proved unfounded. However, my earlier tip, made back in August …
MoneyWeek’s comprehensive guide to the best of this week’s share tips from the rest of the UK’s financial pages. Three to buy Fidelity Japan Trust The Mail on Sunday There are roughly 3,500 listed companies …
Today we are going to take a look at sterling. I’ve written about Frisby’s Flux before – this strangely consistent eight-year cycle in sterling. I’m deeply cynical about cycles, as regular readers will know. It’s …