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It’s a sad situation when you can predict a news story by watching the market trade insider information, before it is announced. It is bad enough when the insider trading is in a marginal penny stock under the thrall of manipulators, because lots of...

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...

The markets are on hiatus waiting for the moment when the US debt ceiling is sorted out, then they might wait again for the “fiscal cliff” issue to be resolved. However it is clear US politicians don’t have the guts to take the medicine they need to ...

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...

A slight acceleration in Chinese economic growth at the end of last year is reinforcing the common narrative that China’s expansion is a threat to other nations, including the US. The bigger danger over the medium term, however, may be a slowdown in ...

Fifteen years ago, China was ecstatic to regain control of Hong Kong and all it represented: freshly minted billionaires, a culture in which corporate chieftains outshine movie stars, and splashy initial public offerings that rival New York and Londo...

Over the fourth quarter of 2012, global capital markets saw heightened volatility but with minimal forward progress as securities prices reacted to news surrounding America’s “fiscal cliff” negotiations. Since last summer, the potentially lethal $60...

The beaten-down shares of 2012's summer slump have come roaring back. The “great recession" is dead and the “great reflation” is about to begin. In January, I wrote an article declaring the euro crisis dead. You might now be thinking I was way too ea...