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Good morning. Auctions in the last few days have brought some big valuations. A painting by Mark Rothko called 'Orange, Red, Yellow' went for $87 million. A diamond known as Le Beau Sancy sold for ...

There has been a lot of focus on investing for income over the past couple of years. This is mainly because income levels (yields) are generally down on where they were a few years ago. Dividends are ...

Shareholder revolts have claimed the jobs of a handful of Britain’s most high profile bosses in the last couple of months, among them David Brennan, the chief executive of drugs giant AstraZeneca ...

Isn’t it funny how easily investors are seduced by the latest headline? North Korea launches rocket … the dollar goes up. Man drops bag of sugar … commodity prices spike. We saw it again on ...

Yesterday it seemed unlikely that Greece can form a government. New elections are likely to produce a government even more strongly against the current EU/IMF loan package and austerity requirements. ...

I joined 20 million other people in Sao Paulo last week on my first trip to Brazil. I made a short video of a few thoughts on the economy and the challenges faced by emerging market economies now ...

Good morning. Westminster's opposition Labour party has come up with its own contribution to the crisis in Euroland; a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU. Oh my, what a brilliant idea that ...

Wherever you look online these days you can find trials of all kinds of software and services. Most of the trials provide you with full access to the program for 30 days or so and then degrade the ...

For quite some time I have been puzzled as to the passivity of the whole of the electricity supply industry over what is coming down the tracks on Electricity Market Reform (EMR). I think I know why ...

As we had a three day weekend last week I used the opportunity of an extra day off to catch up on some reading. One of the pieces I read struck me as particularly pertinent given the elections on the ...