Economics & Markets

Post Card from Cyprus

When Swen asked me to get down to Cyprus to cover the olive harvest I thought this would be a…

Is the ECB too close to the private sector?

Yesterday the FT uncovered a series of meetings between ECB policymakers and the private sector that occurred just before the…

Mr Cameron’s Gamble

On 29 October we learnt from the BBC, that the Prime Ministers of both Finland and Estonia (snowy Baltic neighbours)…

Hysteria on Wall Street: US third quarter GDP results

It is bad news! The worst! Highly strung, highly paid investment banking economists are to be seen standing on the…

Mellon on the Markets

Every year, in this season of mellow fruitfulness, I come to the Viva Mayr Clinic by the beautiful Worthersee Lake…

India Online

In the November issue of the MI Magazine I’ll have some concrete Indian investment ideas for you, not least some…

Can the ECB Boost Bank Lending?

Starting with good intentions The idea of creating an independent central bank to assure that money flows efficiently through the…

Crowdfunding is misselling itself

By James Tuckett, Co-founder and CEO of investUP – the crowdfunding supermarket In July this year the word crowdfunding was…

Tuesday’s Master Investor Market Report

- The FTSE 100 closed the day at 6,365.27, a decrease of 51.75 points. - The FTSE 250 fell by…

Market Update – Qantas, Tata Steel

Qantas [QAN.AX] has just announced 40 more North American codeshares with American, WestJet and Alaska Airlines. They’ll have 200 codeshares…