August 2021

  China’s main stock market, the Shanghai Composite Index, took another tumble this week, falling 8.5% in a single day. It flew in the face ...

 Back in 2001, former Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill coined the acronym BRIC to highlight the immense economic potential of the e...

  The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic surge in “mum and dad” retail investors playing stock exchanges across the world. In Australia...

  Falling four days in a row, China’s main stock index, the Shanghai Composite, has plummeted below the 3,000 threshold. This represents a h...

  The Chinese stock markets have experienced significant turmoil in recent weeks, with the Shanghai Composite Index – the country’s major re...

  Plunging Chinese stocks have been sending worsening ripples across global markets all year, prompting fears of spillovers and recessions. ...

  Stocks, which only recently were hitting a new record practically every other day, suddenly seem to be in free fall. Or at least on a very...

  The stock market is not the economy. This old and playful maxim is typically not true: often the stock market is a good proxy for the econ...

  Do financial traders make better returns in the stock market when they are well rested? You would intuitively assume that a trader’s level...

  The UK’s index of leading companies, the FTSE 100, has broken the 7,000 points barrier and is approaching all-time highs at what might loo...

  British governments have been trying to improve financial inclusion for the best part of 20 years. The goal is to make it easier for peopl...

  The South African Reserve Bank has placed a small bank – VBS Mutual Bank – under curatorship. The decision was based on concerns that the ...

  Open banking launched on January 13 in the UK. It requires major banks to share data with third party financial providers. This will bring...

  It’s been ten years since the global financial crisis led to widespread calls to restore trust in UK financial services. Yet today, the tr...

  Borrowing money can be a risky business. So, in theory, payment protection insurance (PPI) sounds like a sensible precaution to take – a f...