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Consumer stocks lead Wall St after solid jobs report
Consumer stocks received a healthy boost from the latest strong batch of US employment data, helping the shares of companies such as Staples, Estee Lauder and Harley-Davidson to the top of the US...
View ArticleSaturday Papers: EU prepares for Britain to trigger start of Brexit
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View ArticleDividend crackdown: 'a tax on widows'
Losses could be greater still if investments perform well. The analysis above is based on a dividend payout of 4pc, which is the average yield from the broader stock market. There is no change to the...
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Winklevoss plan to trade bitcoin suffers US blow
Hopes for a new way to trade bitcoin were dealt a blow on Friday when US regulators rejected an application that would have let the Winklevoss twins launch an exchange traded fund tracking the digital...
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Yellen set to lift pace of rate rises in 2017
Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve chair, is likely to set in train an acceleration in the pace of interest rate increases on Wednesday as the US central bank responds to an economy that is hitting...
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Bond investors primed for tough-talking Fed
Investors are primed for a more aggressive policy stance from the Federal Reserve, setting the stage for an escalation in the selling of Treasury bonds. With the US central bank widely expected to...
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Fake China data: was it just one province?
March 13, 2017 by: Lucy Hornby and Archie Zhang in Beijing and Jane Pong in Hong Kong Sceptics about China’s economic statistics have taken a special pleasure in revelations of faked data in the...
View ArticleTwo promising investments at discounts of more than 6pc
Although the two trusts have similar portfolios, Pigit has suffered from holding more in smaller companies (8pc versus 4.9pc for Edinburgh), which have generally struggled against the uncertainty...
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What will happen to the pound after Article 50?
Among the staging posts towards Brexit, the triggering of Article 50, the mechanism that begins the two-year countdown to Britain’s exit from the EU, has been on the calendar of sterling watchers ever...
View ArticleBovis and Amec Foster Wheeler jump on bid approaches
Bovis (BVS) and Amec Foster Wheeler (AMFW) have jumped to the top of the FTSE 250 after both the house builder and oil services firm were the subject of bid approaches. Shares in Bovis were up 8.3% at...
View ArticleBovis and Amec Foster Wheeler jump on bids
Bovis (BVS) and Amec Foster Wheeler (AMFW) have jumped to the top of the FTSE 250 after both the house builder and oil services firm were the subject of bid approaches. Shares in Bovis were up 8.3% at...
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Norway turns to radical salmon farming methods
Norway’s salmon producers are turning to radical farming techniques in the face of multiple threats to their industry. From futuristic egg-shaped enclosures that bob in the water to supertanker-like...
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Trump’s trade ethos to be challenged at G20 talks
Officials from Europe and other leading economies are mounting a campaign to draw Donald Trump and his administration towards the mainstream on trade and currency policy ahead of international...
View ArticlePound shrugs off Sturgeon's call for second referendum
The pound has continued to make headway against the dollar after shrugging off Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon's call for a second independence referendum. The pound dipped as Sturgeon...
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Brazil: Bacen back in charge
While most central banks in 2017 are thinking of raising interest rates or already actively doing so — with the US Federal Reserve expected to tighten this very week — in some corners of the world,...
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Junk’s stellar run under threat from a hawkish Fed
When US Federal Reserve officials deliver their latest thinking on the future of interest rates on Wednesday, one corner of the bond market will pay particularly close attention. Speculative grade, or...
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Sterling weakens amid political uncertainty
March 14, 2017 by: Jamie Chisholm, Global Markets Commentator Tuesday 08:00 GMT What you need to know ● Pound under pressure amid Brexit and Scottish secession worries ● Sterling drops below $1.22 and...
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Yellen walks delicate Fed path on mortgage-backed bonds
Janet Yellen is facing questions over how the Federal Reserve will reverse an important part of its crisis recovery effort as housing experts caution the central bank risks rattling the $9tn market...
View ArticleS Korea’s Kosdaq targets tech start-ups
South Korea’s tech-heavy junior bourse Kosdaq is aggressively targeting foreign listings to become a regional hub for tech start-ups, with the small-cap board forecasting a record number of initial...
View ArticlePound falls on Brexit fears as Article 50 looms
The pound has fallen to an eight-week low against the dollar after MPs overturned House of Lords amendments to Theresa May's Brexit bill, clearing the way for the prime minister to trigger Article 50....
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