Latest articles by Brian Durrant
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How you could quadruple your dividend income
Tutorials Reinvesting your dividends is vital to growing your investment. And once you discover which shares you should buy, you could give your dividend income a massive boost. Brian Durrant explains.
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Prefs and Pibs: a safer bet than shares
Tutorials With the base rate down to 2% and poised to go lower, the hunt for a decent income is on. And there are juicy-looking yields on preference shares and permanent income-bearing shares. Brian Durrant explains.
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The world food market – it doesn’t make sense
Features Gulf states are planning to use desalinated water to grow wheat, whilst the US is already using corn to make biofuel – does this really make sense? asks Brian Durrant.
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Why Darling is losing on three fronts
Features The three engines of the UK's economic growth - property, the public sector and the City - are all stalling. Which means Chancellor Alistair Darling's assurances are meaningless and misleading.
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Is is time to get out of equities?
Features The Bank of England's latest quarterly inflation report warned that the threat of falling equity prices posed a significant risk to the global economy. Is it time to sell your stocks and get into cash?
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The winners and losers in these times of transition
Features Although nervewracking and painful at times, the repricing of too-cheap assets and disclosure of losses was long overdue. But which investments will prosper - or founder - in this new environment?
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Why high oil prices are good for gold
Features The world is a more hostile place than it was ten years ago, and there is one underlying reason why - the high price of oil. That may be bad news for peace and personal freedoms, but it's definitely good news for those who hold gold.
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Where next for UK house prices?
Features Brian Durrant has always maintained that the UK housing market will be the victim rather than the assassin of the economy. So what's the current outlook - and will City job losses hit London house prices?
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Do we at last have a good reason to vote for the Conservatives?
Features At the last election, there was an effective non-aggression pact between the two main parties when it came to tax and spend. However, there have recently been encouraging developments within the Conservative party.
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Where next for oil?
Features The question everyone has been asking lately is: has the oil price peaked? Brian Durrant looks at the key trends on both the supply and demand side to find out where the oil price will head next.
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The UK's rising tide of regulation
Features Last month was certainly Black October for those swamped by red tape. On 1 October employers, landlords, advertisers and innovators were hit by more than 50 new business regulations. But what is the cost of this tide of new regulations?
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Water: a very valuable commodity
Features Rather than worrying about the planet heating up or the oil running out, we should concentrate on a more pressing matter, says Brian Durrant: water shortages.
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Why English football is top of the league
Features Aside from staggering pay packets, what do the City and the Premiership have in common? Brian Durrant looks at how both have benefited from opening themselves up to foreign cash - and talent.
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Why the Treasury got it wrong on North Sea Oil
Features Treasury forecasts for last year's North Sea oil receipts were out by 21%. According to Gordon Brown, falling North Sea oil production is not the fault of his department. Or is it? asks Brian Durrant.
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Don't believe the inflation myths
Features What really causes inflation: higher energy prices or poor energy policy? Tax increases or others' refusal to pay? And is globalisation really putting downward pressure on prices? Brian Durrant explains.
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How high oil prices affect your stock picks
Tutorials How High Oil Prices Affect Your Stock Picks - at www.moneyweek.com - the best of the international financial media
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Beware the sucker’s rally in UK property
Features When it comes to the UK house price crash, Brian Durrant of the Fleet Street Letter has always been a sceptic. He and the team have so far been right in predicting a slowdown, rather than an all-out slump in the market. So that's all the more reason to listen when he says he believes the current apparent pick-up in prices is a dangerous 'sucker's rally'...
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What will happen when the China bubble bursts?
Tutorials We may bemoan the UK housing bubble, but it's nothing compared to that in Chinese equities. And it won't just be Chinese investors ignoring warnings about the dangers of speculation who end up getting burned.
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Will the US subprime crisis cause a UK property meltdown?
Features Could America's subprime market woes be the catalyst for a UK slump? The Fleet Street Letter's Brian Durrant doesn't believe Uk estate agents need lose sleep over what's happening across the Atlantic.
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Is Britain's wealth an illusion?
Features Britain doesn't manufacture much and hardly mines or farms anything, yet in many ways, we've never had it so good. But how strong are the foundations of our service-based economy?
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Should you worry about foreign takeovers?
Features A Spanish company owns our main airports and French firms own our utilitities. So should we be worried - or is our extremely open market a strength rather than a weakness?
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Are UK house prices about to fall?
Features Are current UK house prices at unsustainable levels? Gordon Brown's former adviser, David Miles, thinks so - he's just predicted a housing bust. But, says Brian Durrant, houses are unlike any other asset - and that makes it very difficult to call a crash.
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The risks and rewards of investing in 2007
Tutorials Economic optimism is well-founded in 2007, but the geo-political risks are heightened. Brian Durrant outlines the greatest risks - and opportunities - in the coming year.
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Could you win in the hedge fund casino?
Features The hedge fund industry is larger than ever, and managers also seem more willing to embrace risk than ever before, as demonstrated by the recent Amaranth debacle. Could the system of generous incentives be to blame?
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