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A “storm has come from Italy”, say Guillaume Benoit and Sophie Rolland in Les Echos. Rome has announced that it plans to borrow more than expected this year, unleashing “a wave of panic” on government bond markets. The yield on Italy’s ten-year bond

US government bonds endured their worst quarterly sell-off in a year in the three months to the end of September as yields rose (bond prices move inversely to yields), say David Randall and Yoruk Bahceli on Reuters. Central banks have made clear that

Global investors have spent the past few decades largely dismissing Japan as “a stagnant mess, with little hope of rescue,” says The Economist. Yet a strong performance from Tokyo’s stocks this year has flipped the narrative. Now fund managers think

So much for April being the cruellest month. For financial markets, it’s September. Since 1945, America’s S&P 500 index, which sets the tone for global equities, has produced an average marginal decline in September, compared with a very small averag

Chip makers plans run into trouble: Intel’s plans for a German semi-conductor factory are in trouble. The chip-maker says it needs 3,000 people to staff the project; “this year, the local apprentice programme for chip-making technicians is training t

The chorus of stockbrokers, wealth managers and financial advisers urging their clients to buy short-dated gilts is almost deafening. They point out that if you buy a low-coupon gilt, such as Treasury 0.125% redeeming at the end of January 2026, and

Andrew: Let’s start with inflation. You pointed out recently that US inflation is set to rise from its summer low this year. Rob: Yes, this is certainly not a time to pop the champagne. Investors always seem to forget about the base effect, which is

Terrible problems afflict Western societies. Productivity growth has slowed to virtually nothing. Decarbonisation will impose massive costs and, however bad the alternatives might be, make everyone poorer. Fiscal situations are out of control. Most i

If you couldn’t get a ticket to the MoneyWeek summit last Friday, here’s a flavour of what you missed. Andrew opened proceedings with a reminder that although stocks have bounced back after a torrid 2022, the rally is hardly a return to business as u

The cost of dying has been steadily increasing for years. The amount of money required for funerals and associated expenses is almost 30% higher than ten years ago; it rose by another 3.8% to £9,200 in 2022. There are a several ways you can cut costs

Thinking about selling your company? If so, don’t overlook your employees in the search for a buyer. The number of British businesses owned by employee ownership trusts (EOTs) is growing fast, new data reveals. More than 1,400 businesses are now stru

“When the definitive chronicle of this gilded era is written”, there’ll be a special place in it for Gil Dezer, Florida’s king of ultra-luxury towers, says the Financial Times, if only for his invention of “The Dezervator”. The elevator – a major fea

Raffles London at the Old War Office, on Whitehall, opened 100 years to the day after the British empire reached its zenith in terms of “territory overseen”, says Tom Robbins in the Financial Times. “That precise century has witnessed the perfect abo

Aish Cross House, Aish, Stoke Gabriel, Totnes, Devon. A Grade II-listed Regency house with three holiday cottages. It has a large kitchen with an Aga, period fireplaces and a conservatory. 5 beds, 3 baths, 2 receps, library, 2-bed coach house, 2-bed

Directed by Craig Gillespie Screenplay by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo Now showing in cinemas, cert 15 Changes in the share price of individual companies rarely make the front pages, but in January 2021, the meteoric rise of the stock of Ga

US bond yields hit 17-year highs last week as the Federal Reserve continues to signal that it will tighten policy by raising interest rates. The yield on the two-year Treasury note reached 5.2%, reports Bloomberg, marking a 1.4 percentage point rise