“Welcome back, Japan, to the normal economic world,” says Scheherazade Daneshkhu in the FT. The Bank of Japan’s well-trailed decision last week to raise its key interest rate from zero to 0.25% is a highly …
At its 29th / 30th Open Markets Committee meeting Dr Bernanke’s US base rate setting committee opted, as has been copiously documented elsewhere, to raise the core Fed Funds rate for the seventeenth consecutive time, …
The Middle East is on fire again. Hezbollah, the Shia militant party that controls southern Lebanon, killed eight and kidnapped two soldiers in a raid on Israel last week. The offensive prompted a retaliatory bombing …
Up until just recently the only bargains in the carry trade were achieved by borrowing at lower interest rates in the euro and yen. This can be risky, though, because of the uncertainty of exchange …
Investment bankers like to present themselves as champions of shareholder rights, fighting for the interests of investors at the heart of the capitalist system. But for the most part, this is bunkum. Shareholders, by and …
If you’re thinking of jumping on the property bandwagon, don’t – you’re too late Forget the residential housing market, the real excitement over the last six years has been in the commercial property market: offices, …
Is there money to be made in European commercial property? Alex Ross, manager of the Premier Pan-European Property Share Fund tells us why he believes there is – and suggests where to find it. The …
Is a property crash now inevitable? Or could interest-rate and Government intervention engineer a soft-landing? MoneyWeek invited six experts to dinner and asked what they thought… Merryn Somerset Webb: At our last property Roundtable in …
Gordon Brown’s U-turn on self-invested personal pensions (Sipps) came as a nasty shock to investors hoping to snap-up buy-to-let property or second homes with 40% tax relief. The chancellor’s ban on Sipps including residential property, …
Equity income funds may “lack the glamour” of emerging markets or technology funds, says Mark Atherton in The Times, but over the past five, seven and ten years, they have outperformed regular equity funds and …