Economics & Markets

Inside the mind of the Master Investor: Jim Mellon gets bearish as he sees signs of a market top and predicts “big falls” on the horizon.

Fund manager Tim Price explains why US investors could be anticipating an imminent turn in the business cycle.

Private investors are often overlooked by companies when it comes to investor relations. James Faulkner explains why that’s a big mistake.

Stephen Lewis, Partner at Freeths, explains why the North West is a hot spot for property investors and developers alike.

We now know what Cambridge Analytica was up to – and how they did it. They linked personality analysis (psychographics) with Facebook data. But they weren’t even particularly good at what they did. Cambridge Analytica – remember them? Last week the BBC R4’s Jolyon Jenkins explored digital psychographic analysis in a series of radio broadcasts…

Last week, President Trump was accused of starting a trade war, but Victor Hill asks whether the war has been taking place in the background for years and whether these actions will help redress the West’s trade position with China.

As an agreement over Brexit fails to manifest and the deadline edges closer, Victor Hill considers the No Deal outcome.

UK commercial real estate has performed strongly in recent years despite Brexit, as the hunt for yield leads income-seekers to seek alternative sources of income. James Faulkner caught up with Jason Baggaley, manager of Standard Life Property Income Trust, to get a better insight into the current state of the market.

The new Eurosceptic, populist government in Italy has come to power at a time when the eurozone economy is slowing. EU markets and the euro now look vulnerable, but the UK market and the pound are still mired in Brexit uncertainty. Italy: the melodrama continues One thing I love about Puccini’s Tosca is that everybody knows…

At no point in my life has tempus seemed to fugit more than now. This year is nearly half over. I am at my house in the Isle of Man, a glass-fringed old café, and the place is boiling. Is this climate change or just an early summer? Who knows, but all this extraordinary weather will undoubtedly…