Alex Rankine

The coronavirus outbreak is leaving the energy industry facing the prospect of no overall demand growth for the calendar year. 

Hong Kong cannot protect its citizens, provide basic services or command the trust of its people, and it is failing to provide the safety and stabilit…

Investors have shrugged off the disruption to the markets caused by the outbreak of coronavirus.

Chinese policymakers have announced new stimulus measures to contain the fallout from the coronavirus. Asset managers are already positioning themselv…

With the spread of the coronavirus occupying the news, investors may have missed some interesting developments in US corporate earnings

India's government is neglecting economic reform in favour of pushing nationalist policies

The Philippines is a country with fast growth, a young population and plenty of domestic demand to offset global trade turbulence. Here's the best way…

Could Sweden be poised to return to negative interest rates?

Fear of the coronavirus has sent investors retreating to their habitual comfort zone: government bonds.

The coronavirus outbreak is bringing back memories of the 2003 Sars epidemic, which cost the world economy $40bn.

The ink had barely dried on the US-China trade deal before the bulls began pouring into emerging markets.

Markets brightened up after China agreed to import more from the US and America greed to lower some tariffs on Chinese goods. But the trade war is far…

The price of coal price fell by almost a third last year as the world turns its back on the dirty fuel

The eurozone’s stockmarkets had an excellent 2019. But there are serious doubts about their ability to repeat the performance in 2020.

The US dollar could be set to weaken this year, while the euro, Canadian dollar and the Swiss franc could be good bets for optimistic traders.

Gold may be on a bull run, but industrial commodities, including copper, zinc and aluminium, remain cheap.

Analysts have been out in force making rosy predictions for stockmarkets in 2020, but while there is certainly a case for optimism, investors should r…

America’s assassination of a key figure in the Iranian regime has jolted bullish investors out of their complacency. Could we now be facing an oil spi…

American equities soared beyond expectations this year. Yet after a year of outsize returns, most expect a far more modest showing in 2020.

Sweden has ended its experiment with negative interest rates. The Sveriges Riksbank, the world’s oldest central bank, has raised the main interest rat…

This year saw a return to normal for emerging markets. It’s a far cry from 2018, which brought misery for those betting on the world’s fastest-growing…

Unless South Africa institutes economic reforms, including greater fiscal discipline, a clampdown on corruption, and easing labour laws, it risks losi…

Oil exporters’ cartel Opec gave further encouragement to the bulls this month after agreeing to new production curbs.

Chinese companies are defaulting on their debt in record numbers. And the trouble could spread to state-owned enterprises.

Interest-rate cuts in the US and renewed quantitative easing in Europe have driven rally in global equities, driving stocks ever higher.

Australia looks like it could be the next big economy to join the quantitative easing (QE) club.

With the MSCI World index up more than 21% and the FTSE All-World index loitering just shy of all-time high, markets are determined to end the year in…

2019 looks set to go down as the year in which the bond bubble yet again failed to burst

Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe has announced a ¥13.2trn fiscal package to repair damage caused by October’s Typhoon, put new digital technology int…

Diamond miners are in dire straits. The $90bn market is being squeezed by demand and supply problems and faces a long-term threat from manufactured ge…

China's annual economic growth is forecast to dip below 6% in the final quarter of this year and continue to fall into 2020 thanks to weaker exports a…

The average price of a house in the UK rose by 0.8% on the year in November, the fastest pace since April.

This week the US president unleashed surprise tariffs on Brazilian and Argentine steel imports.

UK stocks could be in line for a bounce if the election result reduces political uncertainty.

The stars are aligning for a weaker US dollar, which would be good news for the world economy.

Global growth, and hence demand for oil, could surprise on the upside next year, leading to a bounce in the oil price.