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I guess the major market event this week has been gold's 'flash crash,' which started last Friday and continued on Monday, taking the metal down by $200 over these two days. So, why did this happen and what to do now?
Even in the depths of global economic despair in 2009 when we needed really aggressive monetary policy, the measures used and the quantum of money printed as Quantitative Easing was much too timid, and anyway it got stuck in the bowels of banks' balance sheets as excess reserves as they were all too terrified of lending money on to real people or businesses, as the policy intended.
US authorities have arrested a man they say was plotting to attack the Federal Reserve building in Lower Manhattan, close to where the 9/11 attacks hi...
The "Pacific Coast Highway", one of the great American drives. Just the name evokes visions of relaxation in my mind. Anyone who has ever navigated that sunny Californian road will remember the journey itself, rather than destination at the end.
The rhythmic rise and fall of market sentiment has become depressingly familiar; so much so that I feel like I'm stuck in some sort of time loop, with the same string of events repeating itself over and over again.
They have helped make stars and history, formed political fashions and pharaohs' essentials for the afterlife and are counted as one indicator of economic boom and bust. They also stay closer to men for longer than their wives or girlfriends ever will. So, why is it that men apparently give so little consideration to their underpants?
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Shell-shocked investors have been given some respite after the City's worst trading session in nearly three years. An uneasy c...
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- London's leading shares index is braced for another rocky day after panic over the state of the global economy triggered its bigg...
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- World markets have slumped as fears of a global recession were reignited by a gloomy outlook from America's central bank. T...
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Global stock markets are rallying after moves by the US central bank to give a boost to its struggling economy. The Federal Re...
In the all the drama of the phone hacking scandal and the subsequent Murdoch meltdown over the past two weeks, it can be easy to forget there's still ...
