05/19/2015

St. James's Place Market Bulletin

The world’s financial markets have vacillated in recent weeks and the past seven days produced little evidence of a firmer direction. Renewed anxieties over the US economic recovery restored some stability to bond markets, while the S&P 500 inde

05/18/2015

Weekly Close Up - Close Brothers

They were all invented in China during the Song dynasty (960-1127 A.D.) Another - albeit less famous - invention also took place at that time.

05/18/2015

Vampire CEOs Continue To Suck Blood

As the economy continues to struggle in the seventh year of its supposed recovery after the Great Recession–despite unprecedented amounts of free government money from the Fed–CEO compensation continues to soar

05/11/2015

Coutts: Oil surge points to global growth

Oil prices are one of the few things that have been going up lately – a dramatic reversal of one of this year’s major trends. Global equity and bond markets have been falling, but we think this may have more to do with profit-taking (see last