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In a recent email to his Wall Street Journal readers, Jason Zweig posed multiple-choice questions. The answers would provide investors with lessons. The first started with a lead-in, asking readers to remember all those headlines about the US stock market being super concentrated in the ‘Magnificent Seven’, then he posed the question, “The S&P 500

The UK stock market is on a roll. Despite all the gloom and doom on the employment front, and an inept government in charge of the nation’s tiller, the FTSE100 Index – comprising the biggest listed companies in the country – is roaring away like a late winter fire. With inflation creeping down towards 2

Following two decades of ‘low-inflation’ in the 2000s and 2010s, inflation spiked up suddenly in 2021 after the Covid lockdowns unleashed a fiscal and monetary flood of cheap money. The ‘return’ of inflation in 2021 awakened a sudden resurgence in interest in the implications of inflation for investors. Over the past couple of years, I

There are now as many as 739,000 people aged 16 to 24 who can’t find employment – up 100,000 in just the past year. Even the household of the Bank of England’s chief economist Huw Pill is not immune to the difficulties. Last week he told the Treasury Select Committee: ‘I very much share your

Growing up in the East End, Susan Langley never dreamt she would one day live in the grandeur of Mansion House, ride in a golden coach or entertain the world’s dignitaries dressed in regalia of gold, diamonds and ermine. Dame Susan, as she has become, does all of this and more in her job as

While the latest Division 296 draft legislation may have dispensed with an unrealised capital gains tax component, it still has the whiff of a wealth tax about it. That’s because the effective tax rate on earnings, including any realised capital gains, is tied to the Total Superannuation Balance (TSB) and not just the earned income

On Tuesday, Rachel Reeves will deliver her Spring Statement. With any luck, it will be her last fiscal statement as Chancellor. Thanks to her choices, unemployment has been soaring. Yet, despite the growing numbers losing their jobs, somehow Reeves still has hers. By all accounts she wants Tuesday to be a low-key affair, after the

The RBA has increased interest rates to tame inflation and there’s no shortage of knee jerk reactions. About how it hurts homeowners (of course); about what the RBA will do next, even though almost no one forecast the rate rise a mere four months ago; and about how the government is or isn’t to blame,