“Big investors have returned, helping to push up share prices; some have even tripled in recent years” The 2008 financial crisis hit banks hard. Years of heavy borrowing left many expose and some of the most trusted names collapsed. Investors...
In January 2013, the then prime minister David Cameron announced that there would be a “very simple” referendum on whether Britain should stay in or get out of the European Union. The result would draw a line under the whole issue for a...
Handbags are useful things. Not only can you put your stuff in them, but they can also, to a certain extent, insulate you from the skittishness of investors. Sales of luxury goods maker Hermès’ ready-to-wear range were flat in the last quarter,...
The Indian rupee has fallen to a new record low as the energy crisis bites across emerging Asia. The Thai baht, Philippine peso and Indonesian rupiah have all come under pressure, but it is the rupee that has been Asia’s worst performer over the...