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Energy feeds into almost everything we do or have. It is a vital building block for growth and our modern economy would not exist if not for it. Some historians even surmise that cheap energy was one of the most important factors that helped propel t...

In 2015 the new normal seems to be extreme market volatility. Already, the first few weeks of this year have seen big day-to-day swings in securities prices and major shocks to foreign currencies. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (...

“Unlike, say, meteorologists, who predict specific outcomes at exact times and use percentages to indicate how confident they are about their forecasts, financial pundits rarely assign probabilities to their predictions and make a variety of judgment...

“A good forecaster is not smarter than everyone else, he merely has his ignorance better organised.” — Anonymous In January of last year I laid out 12 unexpected events or surprise situations that were, at the time, outside of the conventional consen...

Thanksgiving is about being thankful. We all should take some time to be thankful for what we have regardless of whether or not we celebrate this American holiday tradition. The entire process of investing is about sacrificing current consumption f...

Investing in stocks systematically has its benefits — but global investment house Schroders believes that to generate consistent outperformance over time, human portfolio managers are still needed to work alongside the computers. Schroders puts those...

The fixed-income market in India and China is opening up to foreign investment, an HSBC expert on the area said yesterday. And Geoffrey Lunt, a senior Asian fixed income specialist for HSBC, said insurance and reinsurance firms should consider the co...

The precipitous drop in crude oil prices since last summer caught most analysts by surprise and that has left investors wondering how to play the move. Since peaking last June, oil prices have declined by 28 percent as measured by West Texas Intermed...

The sound and the fury are over. The Republicans have trounced the Democrats in last week’s election. To put the latest shift in a historical perspective, the US President has now lost more house seats since he took office than any White House occupa...

Watching the kids bob along in their costumes awkwardly strolling from house to house in search of sugar nirvana amid a sea of other little hunters made me reflect on recent market volatility. October’s roller coaster ride in the market definitely of...

Two weeks ago Alibaba (‘BABA’), China’s biggest e-commerce company, marked the biggest IPO (initial public offering of shares to the public) in history. The company raised some $25 billion (Visa was second at $19.7 billion in March 2008). This huge I...