01/31/2014
Relendex’s first effort to raise a loan of several million proved over-ambitious, and was unsuccessful. While there is no shortage of potential borrowers, the lenders are all types and want all manner of different terms and yields.
01/30/2014
The richest of the rich make sure they own properties in London, New York, Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong
01/30/2014
Deciding to “buy China” on the basis that Chinese stocks are good value is irrational given that, without financials, the index would be a lot more expensive.
01/28/2014
The SEC, having feasted upon the flesh of Swiss bankers, stood upright, wiped its blood-stained mouth on the back of its hand, cleared its throat, spat, pulled up its collar against the bitter north wind, and chuckling softly under its breath, slipped uns
01/27/2014
So farewell then, forward guidance. We barely knew you. We were never fans of this policy and said as much. Here, for example, is what we wrote in ‘The Spectator’ last October:
01/27/2014
A former lawyer-turned-fundraiser and adventurer from Oxford who says his body often feels as though it is "encased in concrete" due to Parkinson's Disease, has completed the final stage of an epic, four-year challenge.
01/27/2014
Rather than shift the goal posts on “forward guidance”, the Bank of England may be dropping it in its current form, just six months after its introduction
01/24/2014
While Hoey believes that inflation will rise eventually, he thinks it will drift higher only gradually over the coming years and that governments and central banks will be tolerant of that gradual upward drift in inflation.