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What Seinfeld teaches you about contrarian investing
Tutorials Going against your instincts can be a profitable investment strategy as Seinfeld showed, says Matthew Partridge.
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President Macron’s expensive tat
Features The French leader is resorting to some desperate measures in a drive to make money.
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Book in the news: a darkly fascinating trip into the underworld
Features Book review: Moneyland Oliver Bullough on how corruption ruins poor nations and is a threat to wealthy ones.
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How small businesses can unlock the cash in their invoices
Features Changes in the law could help small and medium-sized enterprises unlock substantial sums tied up in their invoices.
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Corporate debt: the big bubble to watch now
Features Ten years on from Lehman Brothers, where does the biggest risk lie? On corporate balance sheets.
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Julian Dunkerton: Superdry’s serial entrepreneur
Profiles Julian Dunkerton started out selling clothes at a stall in Cheltenham in 1985. Now he has built a global brand present in 46 countries and is venturing into drinks and hotels. Jane Lewis reports.
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How to stay safe on holiday
Features Travel insurance is one of the few forms of cover you absolutely must have, says Ruth Jackson. But check policies carefully before signing up.
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Betting on politics: the futures of May and Corbyn
Features Matthew Partridge finds out who the betting market tips to be the next leaders of the Tories and Labour.
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Brussels stands up to Orbán
Features Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán suffers a humiliation at the hands of the European Parliament.
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No answers on immigration
Features A new review provides ammunition for both sides. Matthew Partridge reports.
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Peace with Kim – the least bad option
Features Accepting Kim Jong-un's offer for nuclear disarmament may be naive, but it's the best option on the table.
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Trump ups the stakes in China trade war
Features The dispute over tariffs could be a foreshadowing of something far worse. Emily Hohler reports.
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Japanese margins hit new peak
Features Over the past five years, Japanese companies’ average pre-tax profit margin has risen from 4.5% to 7.7%.
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The Pacific Alliance: the four best bets in Latin America
Cover Story The emerging market sell-off is a buying opportunity for brave investors seeking resilient, well-managed economies with strong prospects. Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Peru fit the bill, says James McKeigue.
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Make sure you're not getting stiffed by your mobile phone company
Tips It's not just the financial services industry that makes a habit of overcharging its customers. Mobile phone companies do it too, says Merryn Somerset Webb. But you don't have to stand for it.
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MoneyWeek saw the financial crisis coming
Editor's letter Many people still think no one foresaw the financial crisis, says Merryn Somerset Webb. And that's just as the big banks would have it.
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When will the Bank of England raise interest rates again?
Features In a normal world, central banks raise interest rates to keep inflation in check. But even with UK inflation ticking up, we won’t see a rate rise anytime soon.
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A warning from the goldmining boom to today’s cryptocurrency investors
Features The number of cryptocurrencies exploded as coders, entrepreneurs and scam artists jumped on the crypto-bandwagon. But as with a gold rush, fortunes can be lost as well as won.
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Is the Federal Reserve really worried about inflation?
Features The Federal Reserve, America’s central bank, is slowly raising interest rates. But that doesn’t mean it’s going after inflation, says John Stepek. It may have other targets in mind.
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Three video game companies with wide economic moats
Features Matthew Partridge talks to fund managers Victoria Stevens and Matt Tonge, who pick three video-game makers that can keep competitors at bay.
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Good news! Wages are finally rising for everyone
Features For the first time in a decade, wages are rising for young as well as older workers. Merryn Somerset Webb looks at what this means, and where it might lead.
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The biggest economic change in the last ten years that no one talks about
Features Fracking for oil has made the US energy independent. Its effects have spread far beyond the energy markets, says John Stepek, shifting the global economy’s balance of power.
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Why the best response to the financial crisis would have been a recession
Features The authorities’ response to the 2008 financial crisis may have ended up neutering capitalism – the greatest poverty destroying system ever.
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Carving up the Caspian Sea
Features The five states bordering the Caspian Sea, which is rich in fossil fuels, have just reached a deal trumpeted as a “regional constitution”. What now?
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The charts that matter: Happy Lehman Brothers Day!
Features Ten years ago today, the financial crisis exploded onto the front pages. John Stepek looks at the charts that matter to find out what, if anything, has changed since then.
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Another crisis will be along soon enough
Editor's letter We can’t tell you exactly when the next crisis will be or what will cause it. But we can tell you for certain that there will be one.
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Ten years on: why did Lehman Brothers go bust?
Features John Stepek examines why investment bank Lehman Brothers went bust ten years ago and asks: should it have been saved, and would things have been any different if it had?
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Rising wages spell higher interest rates in the US
Features Higher wages are on the way in the US as the labour market keeps tightening. But upward pressure on wages implies upward pressure on inflation and higher interest rates to subdue it.
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British stocks are unloved and undervalued
Features According to the latest Bank of America Merrill Lynch survey, 28% of fund managers are underweight in UK stocks.
