The base metals buying frenzy that began around the middle of last year seems to have come to an end. When pension, investment and hedge funds tried to protect themselves from a declining US dollar …
The US housing market has fallen on hard times. Mortgage rates have been driven up by 17 interest-rate hikes in a row, while overdevelopment means there are more properties than buyers on estate agents’ books. …
Bloomberg is reporting, “Labor Costs Accelerate, Threatening to End U.S. Earnings Streak”: “The price of labor has taken a sudden jump and is likely to keep climbing, threatening to end the longest U.S. corporate profit boom …
The May-June sell off mowed down all stock markets like a drunken professional boxer letting loose the latent power in his right hand in a bar full of non-fighters. It seems no matter where you …
When Cedric de Fonclare was promoted to head of Jupiter’s European Special Situations Fund in July last year, many analysts doubted his ability to continue the excellent track record of his predecessor, Leon Howard-Spink. However, …
Over the past three years, pharma and biotech mutual funds have rotted on the sidelines, says The Sunday Telegraph. For example, out of 898 funds, Threadneedle’s Global Health Fund, “the pick of the bunch”, ranks …
Coming just over a year after the London tube bombings, the footage of queues of air travellers waiting for delayed and cancelled flights has been a stark reminder that there is still a very real …
Soaring energy prices over the past three years have resulted in a bonanza for gas- and oil-rich countries. Vast quantities of petrodollars have been created and recycled back into local economies. I have therefore for …
A professional investor tells us where he’d put his money now. This week, Bryn Jones, investment manager, Rathbone Ethical Bond Fund Investors are faced with a now familiar dilemma: what is the greater menace to …
Investors with a sweet tooth have had a terrific run over the past two years. Sugar more than tripled between early 2004 and February 2006, hitting a peak of more than 19¢/lb, although it has …