Foreign takeover bids prove Brexit Britain is flourishing
A political system in meltdown and the threat of a Corbyn government should have made investors fearful. But they haven’t
Boycotting energy companies won’t solve climate change
They pollute the planet. They are turning global warming into a catastrophe. And they are taking humanity to the brink…
Believe in the post-Brexit bounce
There will be some slightly heavy traffic on the M20. A Waitrose somewhere will run out of freshly cut Dutch-grown…
Don’t despair – there’s hope for the high street yet
Business rates keep rising. The online giants keep on expanding. The living wage has pushed up staff costs in what…
Is the current stock market a load of bull?
The roaring twenties. The booming sixties. The Asian tigers of the 1970s and 1980s, and the dot-com bubble of the 1990s. Every investor is well aware that there have been some great bull markets over the past 100 years…
Meet the ‘Fangs’, the stock to sink your teeth into
They steal your data, and manipulate it for their own ends. They destroy local shops and small companies. They are…
Back to frontiers
There are several mantras that experienced investors use to guide themselves through the markets. ‘Sell in May and go away’…
Scrap this stamp duty spiral
On balance, history will be kind to George Osborne’s six years as Chancellor. He stabilised an economy that was in…
Changing gear
Factories in the north will be shuttered up. Ports will be clogged with lines of Land Rovers and Minis completing…
Watch out for the Trump slump
So far, so good. Wall Street was among the keenest backers of Hillary Clinton in her doomed attempt to win…
Sector Watch: Why digital Britain will be another Brexit winner
Start-ups departing for Berlin and Barcelona; brilliant ‘fintech’ firms left stranded outside the single market; games designers scratching their hipster…
The post-Brexit building boom
Interest rates rocketing back to 1990s levels. Foreign investment funds fleeing for Frankfurt and Paris. The pound in free-fall, and…
The new space race
Imagine you were lucky enough to assemble Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon; Paul Allen, co-founder with Bill Gates of Microsoft;…
How to invest for Brexit
A collapse in trade. British goods locked out of their biggest export market. Car factories shut down after swingeing new…
Bray new world
The City will crumble as major banks decamp for Frankfurt and Paris. Japanese car makers will rip up their British…
After the Brics, the real growth story
As acronyms go, it wasn’t quite up there with Abba, named after the four founders of Sweden’s greatest export. For…
Big Oil: not over yet
It was the kind of megadeal that sets pulses racing in the City. When in early April the oil giant…
How to win the telecoms war game
Aficionados of early 1980s teen movies will remember with affection WarGames, starring Matthew Broderick as a teenage hacker who accidentally…
Sleeping with the enemy
With its mix of charity shops, pound stores and boarded-up windows, the typical British high street could hardly look worse…