Normally a GDP growth rate of 7% would be a cause for celebration. But Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants more and China is struggling...

Oil remains a vital component of the economies and financial markets of the Middle East and a sliding crude price is pressuring growth and welfare...

In recent times those African nations which have oil have benefitted from bumper prices while those without it have suffered chronic inflation and in some...

Latin America was a dog of a performer (again) in 2015, hampered by plunging commodity prices, sliding currencies and in some cases political uncertainty and...

American politics will be dominated by November’s Presidential election. Since 1948 the final year of a President’s term has witnessed the weakest average returns from...

Vladimir Putin remains a major thorn in the side of the West, as Russia takes an ever-more assertive stance in global affairs.

Moscow has...

Western Europe is now adding QE (Quantitative Easing) to LTRO, TLTRO, OMT, SMP, ABS, ESM and EFSF and its alphabet soup of policy initiatives. Bulls...

Let's be honest; how many of us will really join a gym, cut back on junk food and run round the park every weekend? A...