Andrew Van Sickle
Andrew is the editor of MoneyWeek magazine. He grew up in Vienna and studied at the University of St Andrews, where he gained a first-class MA in geography & international relations.
After graduating he began to contribute to the foreign page of The Week and soon afterwards joined MoneyWeek at its inception in October 2000. He helped Merryn Somerset Webb establish it as Britain’s best-selling financial magazine, contributing to every section of the publication and specialising in macroeconomics and stockmarkets, before going part-time.
His freelance projects have included a 2009 relaunch of The Pharma Letter, where he covered corporate news and political developments in the German pharmaceuticals market for two years, and a multiyear stint as deputy editor of the Barclays account at Redwood, a marketing agency.
Andrew has been editing MoneyWeek since 2018, and continues to specialise in investment and news in German-speaking countries owing to his fluent command of the language.
Latest articles by Andrew Van Sickle
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Trump’s trumpeted tax plan is a dud
Features Donald Trump’s tax plans, designed to grapple with a tax code of 70,000 pages, amounted to just a one-page briefing.
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Opec can’t tame US shale oil producers
Features In trying to beat US shale oil producers, Opec has a serious fight on its hands. And it’s only going to get harder.
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Reflation balloon will keep rising
Features Markets have reined in their expectations of inflation over the next five years . But it’s too early to write off the reflation trade.
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Stocks surge as Macron takes the lead
Features When it became clear that Emmanuel Macron had narrowly prevailed over Marine Le Pen in the first round of the presidential election, markets surged.
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Should the IMF be more optimistic?
Features The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is feeling bullish. But this isn’t necessarily good news: its forecasting record is mediocre.
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Investors panic over French election
Features Investors have been confronted with a new and alarming possibility in the French presidential election: a run-off between the far left and the far right.
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Greece’s debt saga grinds on
Features This latest chapter in Greek debt saga should buy Greece time until 2018, but it’s a fudge that won’t resolve the matter.
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A currency war averted
Features Donald Trump had threatened to brand China a currency manipulator, but has now retreated from that position.
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US stocks lose faith in the Trump bump
Features US stocks hit new records in March, but have drifted downwards since then as more and more investors have decided that Trump looks both capricious and ineffectual.
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US data does the splits
Features The gulf between business and consumer sentiment and official statistics int he US hasn’t been this wide since 2000, according to Morgan Stanley.
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Turkey: damned either way
Features On Sunday 16 April, Turkey will hold a referendum on whether its increasingly authoritarian president should be granted even more power. It’s difficult to see much upside whether the measures pass or not.
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Brazil: keep an eye on reforms
Features In the past few years, Brazil ’s economy has not been an auspicious backdrop for equities, yet the market has almost doubled to a six-year high since early 2016. So is the rally justified, and can it endure?
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Will oil’s Trump-bump last?
Features Donald Trump’s missile strike on Syria last week helped boost Brent crude to a four-week high of $56 a barrel. But will it last?
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Where to find the world’s cheapest stocks
Features With investors in US stocks facing some of the worst returns in history, where should they turn for value?
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Russia’s stockmarket rally isn’t over yet
Features Russian stocks jumped sharply in 2016, but this year they have slipped by 4% – the second-worst showing by an emerging market after Greece.
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Italy: the eurozone’s Achilles heel
Features With an economy almost eight times the size of Greece’s, Italy is too big to fail and too big to bail out. And it is drowning in debt
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Will anything halt this global stockmarket rally?
Features Wall Street and the FTSE 100 have hit new highs. European stocks are looking livelier too. Global equities, measured by the FTSE All-World index, are also at new peaks. But could this be as good as it gets?
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Europe will bounce back
News Investors who fled Europe last year may wish they had stuck around, says Andrew Van Sickle.
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World shakes off its hangover
News It has taken almost a decade, but the world economy is finally beginning to enjoy a broad-based upswing.
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Signs of life in Japan
News Recent data has fuelled hopes that Japan is about to make a break with its deflationary past.
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Clouds over South Korea begin to lift
Features The impeachment of Park Geun-hye, South Korea’s first female leader, could prove a major opportunity for Asia’s fourth-largest economy.
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Oil price comes off the boil as shale oil surges
Features US shale oil producers may be able to keep oil prices in a range around current levels.
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Skew index warns of trouble ahead
Features The Skew index captures the level of unease in markets. It is now approaching its highest reading since its inception.
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Philippines' Duterte distracted by drugs
Features Since being elected president of the Philippines last May, Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has overshadowed his tenure.
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