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Not falling, but definitely decelerating. That’s the story on UK house prices. Look at the headline number and you will see an annualised rise of 10.5% – or 74% over the last decade. Look more closely and you will see that while the monthly number is

“The eurozone is on the brink of stagflation,” says Eric Albert in Le Monde. Annual inflation hit 8.1% last month, a level unprecedented since the creation of the single currency. Energy prices, which rose at an annual rate of 39% in the past year, w

“Investors are increasingly discussing GBP as taking on emerging-market characteristics… parallels to the 1970s resonate as being one of the worst post-war decades for the UK,” says Kamal Sharma of Bank of America. The pound has been the third worst-

There’s a hurricane “right out there down the road coming our way”, JPMorgan Chase’s chief executive Jamie Dimon told a conference last week. “We just don’t know if it’s a minor one or Superstorm Sandy [which caused $65bn of damage in the US in 2012]

Having won Monday’s vote by 211 votes to 148, Boris Johnson now has “one, possibly final, chance to show he is the man all evidence suggests he isn’t”, says Robert Shrimsley in the Financial Times. “For he is now swimming against a tide in his own pa

In some ways surprisingly well. The rouble crashed in late February (almost halving in value from around 75 roubles to the dollar to around 140) as Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine and the West began imposing sanctions. But it had recovered al

Target misses its target: US retail giant Target is “off target again”, says Andrea Felsted on Bloomberg. Hot on the heels of its last profit warning last month, which caused its shares to fall the hardest since 1987, the big-box operator now expects

stumblingandmumbling. typepad.com Now that I have retired from writing about investment, “I can safely make a confession,” says Chris Dillow: “For years, I was stealing a living.” The truth is that the general financial advice any retail investor n

Small, esoteric trusts with a chequered corporate record are generally best avoided. Rockwood Strategic (LSE: RKW), a trust with market value of just £35m which is trading on a 12% discount to net asset value, is an exception to this rule. Until six

The second half of 2022 is approaching. Six months isn’t much of a time horizon, even for a relatively short-term trader. But as I have a new batch of Aim stocks for you to consider today, let’s check in with my picks from the start of the year (‘Fou

On 21 May, Australia went to the polls. The incumbent prime minister and leader of the centre-right Liberal Party Scott Morrison sought to win a consecutive fourth term in office. Late on election night, Morrison conceded and on 23 May Anthony Albane

Individual savings accounts (Isas) might seem like an obvious place to store your savings. However, interest rates on these accounts lag far behind standard savings products. Banks are paying as much as six times more interest on their standard savin

All retirees drawing an income from their savings face the same dilemma: how much can they safely take out each year without having to worry their money will run out? For many years, the 4% rule devised by US financial-planning guru William Bengen ha

In a Royal Albert Hall speech to the Institute of Directors just over 30 years ago, Gerald Ratner – then head of the world’s biggest jewellery group, with more than 2,500 stores – made a few ill-advised jokes about some of his firm’s products. He eve

When Broadcom’s CEO Hock Tan met Donald Trump in early November 2017, the two men struck up an instant accord. The meeting seemed a win-win for both men, says the Financial Times. Tan’s announcement that he was shifting the Singapore-based chipmaker

When the ancient Greeks named Sicily “Trinacria” (three-pointed island), they were no doubt referring to Sicily’s triangular shape. But the name could just as easily refer to the many angles from which to view this enigmatic island, the Mediterranean

Bar Lodge, Sharpitor, Salcombe, Devon. An Edwardian cliff-top house with sea views in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The updated interiors include a lower ground floor arranged as a separate annexe, which could be used as a holiday let. 5 bed

“Liberated from a tempestuous, dysfunctional relationship with the Prancing Horse crew, Maserati launched its self-developed carbon-fibre MC20 supercar last year. Now, here comes the follow-up,” says Máté Petrány in Road & Track. The Maserati Grecale

The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War Nicholas Mulder Yale University Press, £24 A bombastic and bellicose tyrant launches an unprovoked war on a smaller and less powerful nation. Overnight, international condemnation turns his nation int

The impact of Covid-19, and now the cost of living crisis, may have squeezed people’s incomes, but not everyone is doing badly. The latest Sunday Times’ Rich List suggests that “a golden era for the super-rich has continued unchecked”, says Robert Wa

When the feds cut supply (shutting down the economy in the Covid-19 panic), and then boosted demand (printing up new money and passing out cheques), what would happen next was almost a foregone conclusion – prices would rise. This is not rocket scien