Fears of a currency war have not come to fruition in Asia, making Asia’s current market woes look even more like the effects of contagion.
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For all its muscle, the Chinese government could make the problem worse by intervening in the stock market.
As China’s markets stabilise the net result will probably be a transfer of wealth from ordinary Chinese to the wealthy.
The investor fear gauge is close to its lows, but calm investors seem to be missing the looming storm.
Chinese investors are learning to respect the power of the market, but the banking sector should know better.
Why the Shanghai stock exchange should be thought of more as a casino than as a proper stock market.
Behind all the hand-wringing over financial executive pay is a desire to moderate risk-taking. Financial markets may already have the answer to hand.
The stock market looks a good bet, despite reaching an all-time high late last month. But until the UK election is out of the way, you might want to steer clear.
The 2010 Flash Crash wiped 1,000 points off the DJIA in an instant. An MIT professor explains how to keep it from happening again.
The trick is to trade on companies linked to the news, not those in the news.
Anyone putting their money into a savings account in recent years will have noticed they are getting very little return in the way of interest. Policies aimed at stabilising the economy following the financial…
Dark pools are growing in popularity and now account for more than 15% of total trading in some stock markets. But despite such trading being blamed by some commentators for everything from market instability…
There is an ongoing and very heated debate between the unconditional supporters of private equity and their opponents. It’s not hard to see why. On the surface, these investors can often buy fragile companies…
A direct link has been established between Hong Kong and Shanghai’s stock exchanges. The so-called Stock Connect means investors in Hong Kong can now buy shares listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange via…
After a relatively benign period, market upheaval has returned. The main stock market indices have been falling across Asia, Europe and the US, while safe-haven assets like gold have been on the rise…
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” The well-known words of Winston Churchill are probably on the mind of Dave Lewis, the new CEO of Tesco. The company faced what many deemed to be the worst crisis…
Greed is still good. Wall Street has just witnessed its largest ever stock market launch as Chinese internet giant Alibaba raised some $25 billion and watched its share price rise by 35% on its first day’s…
The FTSE 100 reached 6877.39 points last week. It was the highest since its all-time peak of 6950.60 on December 30 1999 before the start of the deflation of the great dotcom bubble in January 2000. It…
Nokia has announced its new strategy. The Finish technology company will focus on the infrastructure business that keeps our mobile lives operating smoothly and will continue to chase opportunities in…
The ongoing weakness in tech stocks brings with it the inevitable portent that we are witnessing the bursting of a new dot com bubble akin to that of the late nineties and early noughties. Shortly before…
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