Economics & Markets

We face grave threats and growing uncertainties within the financial markets. Gold doesn’t solve all of the world’s problems – but it’s a start, writes Tim Price.

Inside the mind of the Master Investor: Influential British investor Jim Mellon reveals his latest thoughts on the markets.

The trade war between China and the USA has entered a new and more dangerous phase which could have serious implications for the global financial system. What’s more, it presages the start of something graver: a New Cold War, writes Victor Hill.

There is a new breed of unicorn which not only offers technological solutions but potentially lifestyle solutions as well. The only problem is that many of them are currently loss-making, writes Victor Hill.

The UK is still growing and creating more jobs. But the Brexit drag on market valuations is being intensified by increased political uncertainty, writes Victor Hill.

Greta says the house is on fire. Panic is racked up by opportunistic celebrities, academics – and now the UN. Lifestyles, apparently, will have to change drastically – immediately – if the planet is to survive. But will they? Victor Hill enquires.

The UK government is in a state about whether Chinese tech giant Huawei should participate in the roll-out of the UK’s 5G network. The argument has now claimed the scalp of the UK Defence Secretary. This torrid affair reveals much, writes Victor Hill.

Inside the mind of the Master Investor: Jim Mellon reveals his latest thoughts on the markets…

Smartphones have emerged as the key battleground in the current Indian general election. Could politics reverse the secular decline in smartphone sales? Victor Hill investigates.

When bitcoin plunged in value in early 2018 many of us thought that was that. But it turns out that the bitcoin bubble was just the beginning, writes Victor Hill.