Chinese factory activity has reached a three-year high“Politics creates short-term volatility,” but “at the end of the day the business cycle matters above all”, Andrew Milligan of Aberdeen Standard Investments tells Michael Mackenzie in the …
Investors in the “lucky country” will need a lot of luck in 2020Will Australia be the next big economy to join the quantitative easing (QE) club? Slowing growth has prompted the Reserve Bank of Australia …
The pound loved Johnson’s victoryThere is really only one story in the foreign exchange markets today – and that has to be the pound. Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party was re-elected yesterday with a larger than …
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman: has he made Riyadh more repressive?Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil giant, has finally made it to market. But the regime struggled mightily to get it there. The world’s biggest initial public offering …
In 2016, open-ended commercial property funds shut their doors amid panic over Brexit. Last week, it happened again. It’s as if these funds aren’t up to the job, says John Stepek. If we had to …
Exports of avocados from the Andean Three are boomingThe recent political turmoil in Latin America doesn’t change the auspicious long-term economic outlook for Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. It spells opportunity for contrarian investors, says …