Economics & Markets

Why the FED may struggle to implement its policy rate

With the FED hiking its key benchmark rate one should expect interest rates to start rising across the yield curve.…

The FED’s new cycle is already rotten

So, they finally did it! The FED has just announced the first rate hike in almost a decade. Investors have…

Top 3 crowdfinance predictions for 2016

By Dom Wolf, Co-founder of investUP – the crowdfunding supermarket To nobody’s surprise, the exciting predictions for the world of…

India Online: Update

At the end of October, further to a trip to India, I wrote a piece on these pages entitled India…

Airport Wars: Indeterminate Delay

Back in September I wrote a piece for these pages (Airport Wars: Heathrow versus Gatwick) in which I explained why…

A review of crowdfinance in 2015

By Dom Wolf, Co-founder of investUP – the crowdfunding supermarket A year goes quick, doesn’t it? Before you know it…

The Trouble with Calais

“When I am dead and opened, you will find Calais written on my heart.” - Queen Mary I This situation…

War on Terror II: The Janus-Faced Kingdom

In 1744 in the Arabian city-state of Al-Diriyyah, a prominent Muslim cleric by the name of Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhabi came…

Some thoughts on the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement

Last week I was at an event held by the FT where the guest speaker was Paul Johnson from the…

Mercifully, the ECB under-delivered

Yesterday, the ECB extended its QE programme until March 2017, cut its deposit rate to -0.30pc and extended its asset…