We may not have another Cold War on our hands, but relations between Russia and Europe have cooled considerably over the past few weeks. The state-owned gas giant Gazprom, the third-biggest company in the world, …
Every human being must understand that the Federal Reserve IS inflation. The Federal Reserve was established in 1913 to create inflation and its secondary role is to manage the public’s inflation FEARS. Over the past …
The China-India comparison is central to the Asia debate. It is also of great importance to the rest of the world. In the end, it may not be either / or. While China has outperformed …
Ben Whitmore, manager of Schroder Recovery Fund tells MoneyWeek where he’d put his money now. We tend to look for our investment ideas in areas of the market where there has been poor news and …
Natasha Chetwynd,head of Japanese Equities for Britannic Asset Management tells MoneyWeek where she’d put her money now. In 2003, the Japanese market rose 23%. Then last year, it rose 8.5%. That’s the first time in …
Following Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, in his testimony to the Congress on July 20, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said that it is quite likely that we are currently experiencing …
There has been remarkably little market reaction to Prime Minister Koizumi’s decision to call early elections for 11th September, following defeat of the postal reform bill. If anything the markets are moving in the opposite …
The latest Spectrem Group survey of wealthy US investors has some interesting implications. Not least is the suggestion that ultra high net worth households in the US have quietly doubled their exposure to mutual funds …
While German companies have become decisively more optimistic about current business conditions and the outlook for future activity, consumers seem to be getting gloomier again. After a stronger than expected rise in the Ifo business …
The Chinese economy has started to slow owing to excess capacity. The rapid investment-led boom of the last five years borrowed growth from the future. I believe the economy will take at least two years …