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Short selling is a sophisticated strategy that many active traders use to try and capitalize on stocks or markets they feel are overvalued.
The world’s global debt pile has grown to $164t, making it larger now than it was at the height of the global financial crisis.
The more robust and sophisticated finances of developing nations is making it unlikely that crises like those experienced in the 80s and 90s, could repeat themselves.
In a year that has seen a record $3.5t in acquisitions agreed to, Berkshire Hathaway has chosen to reinvest almost $1b back into its own shares rather than acquire anything.
As the global equity markets continue to trend downwards for the year, pressure is mounting on both sides of the U.S.-China trade tension to repair the relationship before tariffs are increased in 2019.
BlackRock has announced that their third quarter inflows sank to a two-year low; highlighting the rising tide of investor anxiety amid discrepancies between U.S. and international outlooks.
As EU governments struggle to keep an Iran nuclear deal alive, the EU announced plans to create a special payments channel...
Emerging markets have enjoyed strong returns over the past two years, but a perfect-storm of factors including the U.S. and China trade war, is starting to cause volatility.
The first nine months of 2018 have seen nearly $3.3tn in M&A deals, a 39% jump over 2017.
The S&P Dow Jones Indices are set to re-classify several major companies including Facebook, Alphabet and Netflix from technology to communications.
The U.S. 10-year real yield recently hit its highest point since 2011, heating up the debate around the end of the bond bull market.
The aviation industry is on the brink of a major transformation.
After the Trump administration announced new tariffs on about $200bn worth of Chinese imports, the Chinese government has responded in kind;
Apple recently became the first US company to be valued at a cool $1tn, but another less-heralded but no less important landmark is looming.
As tension over trade ratchets up around the world, it is common to try to remind US policymakers that trade is not a “zero-sum” game.
The global financial outlook could be shifting toward a credit crunch.
The latest U.S. jobs figures and wage growth offer a benign backdrop, but trade risks are building
After more than 120 years, the Dow Jones is still one of the most-cited indices in the world.
Booming oil production does not mean the U.S. can ignore Opec
Potential victors in tariff tussle include German piggeries and Vietnamese yarn spinners
Is Elon Musk’s recent announcement of job cuts a sign of belated realism or that financial problems are coming due?
Beijing promotes global electricity network to absorb huge power surpluses.
Producers shrug off sanctions and benefit from surge in crude price and weaker rouble.
Our latest featured article explains why investing in the 97% of bonds issued outside Canada makes sense, and presents a case for choosing hedged instead of unhedged funds when doing so.
A shift to a green energy economy is bringing a new variety of political tensions.
Big issues unresolved as Mexican presidential and U.S. Congressional elections loom.
A perfect storm of factors could push oil back over $100.
Adverse market reaction to record profits from big U.S. banks highlights the danger
The collapse of a few small funds in February helped fuel a terrifying stock market slide. Why?
Even as an emerging market sell-off unfolds, foreign funds pour into renminbi debt.
Industry emerges from downturn more productive and propels spectacular output growth
BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street have promised to raise corporate governance levels.
The funds' size and rule-based trading pattern had a destabilizing impact this month.
Country's exports have been propelled by a boom in oil and natural gas production.
In turbulent times, the best strategy is often to stay cool and tune out the noise.
Thematic ETFs allow you to invest in specific market niches or themes, as well as to align your portfolio with your moral beliefs or your personal interests. But does investing in niche ETFs make financial sense?
Mining is a cyclical business and thus a risky one for investors. This feature article introduces some of the key dynamics that drive investor sentiment in the sector.
Yields are not yet at a level to threaten equities, which is good news for Donald Trump.
Year holds potential risks for copper, palladium and lithium.
Amid the fervour, remember that cryptocurrencies lack a legitimate function.
Not many market analysts bothered to crunch the consequences in the result of an upset in Alabama, because it seemed so.
Rising oil prices and stronger fund inflows into energy resources drive sector.
Demand is up, stocks are tightening, and seaborne storage appears to be yesterday's trade.
Once an acronym has been coined, that can be the sign of serious trouble.
He is the first non-economist to head the US central bank in decades.
There's no perfect way to predict where markets are headed, but the Volatility Index (or VIX), gives interested investors a helpful gauge.
Money managers and strategists say picking winners will be tricky.
Thirty years on, the market is different but has similar characteristics, from high valuations to trading strategies that could accelerate a sell-off.
Disquiet rumbles over dumb indexing distortions fuelling a classic bubble.
We sat down with one of our senior traders to talk about New Issues, Initial Public Offerings, discounted common shares and newly issued bonds.
Fund manager Evy Hambro amasses stakes in small miners of metal used in vehicle batteries.
Cash-rich US companies are buying corporate bonds, but will promised tax reform end the buying spree?
Industry fears market will become vulnerable once Beijing curtails its stockbuilding.
By many measurements, today's stock markets are overvalued, but investors are struggling to work out when or if a crash will come.
Assessing how damaging the 'Amazon effect' could be for traditional retailers.
In their hunt for yield, some investors are using covered calls as a way to boost income in their portfolios, with limited risk. This month's Featured Article provides an introduction to using covered calls as a conservative options-trading strategy
Investors have accelerated their buying of European financial assets, but the region's stock markets may not be as cheap as they appear.
Defining 'emerging markets' is an important and expensive business — which is why MSCI's annual reclassification is a major market event.
Loophole gives the true stock pickers a chance to beat their low cost rivals.
US are increasingly scrapping in person shareholder meetings.
Green bonds are one of the fastest growing areas of the global fixed-income market.
The Internal Revenue Service blunts pot companies prospects.
Should we try to time the market? And has the boom in passive investments brought any problems in its wake?
With oil prices falling almost ten per cent in the past week, here are five factors contributing to the renewed bout of selling that could dictate whether Brent crude can hold...
Smart Beta has become one of the investment industry's biggest earners. Here's how the five most popular factors actually performed.
Another “great rotation” is undeniably under way—one favouring “value” investing...
You only have to look back to the tumultuous November in markets to see the growing significance of exchange-traded funds that track bonds.
The beer market in the U.S. has been in a ferment, and commodity markets are responding — raising the spectre of oversupply as growth slows.
After taking on the mutual fund complex, the passive investment industry's financial engineers are now training their sights on hedge funds. And they're winning.
While ETFs are supposed to be the ready-made meals of stock market investing, not all of them are good value — or easy to understand.
What do the alarming results of a simple coin-tossing experiment tell us about how we might approach stock market investing?
Where would you invest with the benefit of a decade of hindsight?
Low volatility stocks could be a sensible way to maintain exposure to equities when markets are volatile.
Even though they don't provide regular interest payments, with strip bonds, compound interest is the name of the game. In this article we explain why.
Strip bonds are an attractive alternative to conventional bonds. This article reviews the key features and benefits of investing in strip bonds.
US oil producers will recover from the collapse in crude prices to 12-year lows and pump millions of barrels a day.
It was not in the script for bank stocks in the US and western Europe to fall into a bear market. And yet banks are back in a bear market.
In 2016 China will once again be hugely important in determining the path of the world economy and the direction of capital flows.
The FT's John Authers explores the trades that with the benefit of Hindsight would have made money in 2015.
Neither markets nor central banks operate in a vacuum. Their behaviour changes in response to the actions of the other.
John Authers from the FT explores the broader ramifications of Volkswagen's cheated emissions tests.
FT.com: The US does not directly trade significantly with China. But it does trade heavily with neighbours Canada and Mexico.
John Authers concludes the FT's series on indices, and how they have risen far beyond their original place as handy benchmarks to become important drivers of world markets.
The Financial Times considers investors' focus on the 'Dow' and the $7.8tn worth of reasons why people should be thinking about another index.
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