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Another (economically) scary graph on the ageing population. This time from The Economist. It is not just the low birth …
FT Alphaville had a great quote from HSBC FX Research on the supposed prospects for a “crisis” (i.e. a …
Nationwide’s atest house price survey shows house prices fell % in February compared with January, but this large drop is …
The Institute of Economic Affairs’ Shadow MPC latest meeting produced a 6 to 3 vote in favour of holding rates …
The latest Berkshire Hathaway investment letter has Buffet’s usual thought provoking and fun comments on everything from house prices …
Profits have done comparatively well this recession, which is good news for investors and other business owners. Stumbling and Mumbling …
The threat of a lack of population is becoming as scary as the threat of too much. The term “population …
Henderson New Star’s Money Moves Markets blog has some graphs and numbers on the large (20%) expected increase in …
Fund Strategy blog has a post that underlines the pointlessness of mult-manager funds The problem is that changes in managers …
AdvisorAnalyst has an interesting post on the relationship between gold, the dollar and (more recently) the euro. The article concentrates …
Moodys has placed a number of Greek government securities on downgrade review, in an announcement quoted by FT Alphaville. Moodys …
Oil-price.net’s article on Falklands oil has a list of the companies involved in exploration, as well as analysis …
The proposed .05% tax (a Tobin tax, although sometimes referred to as a Robin Hood tax) is generally very poorly …
The KPMG retail monitor downloadable here reports the “worst January sales growth in 15 years”, continuing the bad flow of …
The Euro area’s expected GDP growth is just 1% for the current year, according to a statement made by …
Barclays is up over 17% so far this morning on full year results that were much better than expected. The …
The ONS released consumer and producer price indices for January today, showing a rise in the rate of inflation, confirmed …
Interactive Investor reports that the IPO market is not entirely dead, although it does appear to be very slow following …
ICAP has confirmed that it is performing a “strategic review” of some of its businesses: in other words it is …
The New York Times has revealed Greece’s use of off balance sheet debt, but misses an important implication in …