Tag: Buttonwood
European stocks are buoyant. Firms still refuse to list there
It must be tempting to give up. Those tasked with reviving Britain’s stockmarket have long faced a difficult task and a steady drip...
Why investors lack a theory of everything
If there was to be some cataclysm, and he could preserve just one sentence for future scientists, Richard Feynman would have made it...
Shareholders face a big new problem: currency risk
Imagine someone who found secondary-school maths difficult being grilled about logarithms. That is how a lot of equity investors look if you ask...
How a mortgage transforms your investment portfolio
As financial decisions go, borrowing several times your annual earnings to buy a risky asset is a pretty big one. Yet for many...
Should investors spend the trade war in India?
Fresh-faced financial reporters are swiftly disabused of the idea that there are “safe havens” in financial markets. With one eye on the word...
The American government’s accidental private-credit subsidy
How a Depression-era lending scheme became a trillion-dollar wheeze
Can foreign investors learn to love China again?
FOR CHINESE stocks to outperform American ones is rare enough. But this year the MSCI China index has beaten its American equivalent by...
