The prospect of a “high intensity” armed conflict involving major military powers has been a subject of reflection and concern in expert circles and the media for some years now. This issue has become even more topical with the recent rise in geopoliti…
May 8, 2021 marked 76 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe – VE Day. While the conflict which claimed millions of lives on European soil is firmly committed to the annals of history, conflict in the East of the continent is still a har…
In case you didn’t know, there’s a fund ETF which is representative of Russian equities, the symbol being RSX:
Consumer prices in the United States continued to surge at the start of 2022, as inflation hit a 40-year high in January. The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) was up 7.5 percent compared to a year ago, while the core index excluding…
A date can burn a hole in your pocket and in some cities, the cost of a romantic evening is absolutely extortionate. If you meet someone from Switzerland on holidays and subsequently visit them with the intention of paying for dinner and drinks, you be…
This entire space will be battered for a long time.
This is what the economic world looked like in 1960: the U.S. and Britain being the two big boys. Now China dominates and US is second fiddle.
Despite Covid-19 restrictions, many Americans pressed on and celebrated Valentine’s Day in 2021 regardless. The National Retail Federation estimated total spending in the U.S. to have been $21.8 billion. As our chart shows though, that did represent a …
JPM, which has every reason in the world for stocks to go UP, told the world to BUY stocks because of a “whisper number” they made up
The Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury did not intervene in foreign exchange markets during the October – December 2021 quarter.