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Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the next US Federal Reserve Bank chairman to succeed Ben Bernanke and so far the financial markets like the decision. Both fixed income and equity markets rose immediately after Yellen’s speech to the Senate Banking...

Noticeably absent from this year’s soaring stock market have been emerging market equities and those companies which deal in commodities. Stoked by unprecedented money-printing and massive global “ring-fencing” of the world’s most serious credit prob...

After the financial debacle in Cyprus last month, some investors may be rethinking the idea of bank deposit safety. The decision to force Cypriot savers into a bailout came after the country’s largest banks became too highly leveraged and then compr...

With stock market indices pushing new highs, the investment community has become somewhat divided over exactly where we go from here. For one thing, what makes this bull market rather different from those of past eras is the sheer breadth of the rise...

Last week the man in the street got exactly what he asked for ... at least in Bulgaria. For many days, thousands of anti-government protesters had been mobbing the streets of the capital city Sofia, chanting, "Everybody out." And indeed, a good par...

Investment professionals are carefully analysing recent central bank policy announcements, particularly those which have lately caused sharp and sudden moves in several of the world’s largest currencies. Last week, headline news surrounding the plung...

Those who attended LOM’s market update luncheon at the Hamilton Princess last week may recall our thesis that the US is one of the few major economic powers capable of pulling the world out of its present slump. As the ‘cleanest dirty shirt’ in the ...

Despite its reputation as a perennial long shot in the race for investment performance, gold has once again come through with a respectable return this year. At the time of this writing the price of gold has increased by 12.3 percent so far this year...