A usually sedate part of the investment world is clearly in a bubble.

The inverted yield curve on US Treasuries spells trouble for investors. Alex Rankine reports.

Ever since the Thatcher era, Britain has been relaxed about the nationality of buyers of its industrial assets. But is that always wise? Alex Rankine reports.

The benchmark Nifty index is now down 9% and has just had its worst July for 17 years.

While the Euro Stoxx index has rallied 15% this year on the prospect of interest-rate cuts, eurozone banks have been notably absent from the festivities.

China’s currency fell to an 11-year low against the US dollar, prompting US authorities to brand the country a currency manipulator.

After a decade of extraordinary monetary policies, central banks had started a long, slow march back to normality. They hadn’t got very far before turning back again.

Investors in emerging markets should focus on Southeast Asia – a region where nearly every nation’s GDP and productivity growth has beaten the developed world since 2000.

With gold rallying 10% so far this year, some investors are starting to pay attention to silver.

Donald Trump’s bullying campaign against Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell yielded the first interest-rate cut in a decade.