Saint Augustine of Hippo is well-known for works such as Confessions and The City of God but the fourth century AD Christian theologian may be...

Small cap stocks tend to outperform while the good times roll, bulls are in charge and risk appetite is elevated. The chart below shows how...

This month (4 April) marks the second anniversary of Japan launching its own version of Quantitative Easing (QE). When the scheme was first announced by...

One of the tracks for which singer-songwriter Ian Dury was best known was Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll and when it comes to...

The financial markets continue to digest the implications of the policy meeting of the US Federal Reserve (18 March), which saw chair Janet Yellen drop...

The financial markets continue to digest the implications of the policy meeting of the US Federal Reserve (18 March), which saw chair Janet Yellen drop...

“I am convinced that if it [the price system of a free market] were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided...

Banks continue to make the headlines and not necessarily for the right reasons. Lloyds may have pleased investors by reinitiating dividends after a gap stretching...

While the FTSE 100's advance toward and then beyond its 1999 all-time high of 6,930 continues to attract headlines, another famous benchmark is making a...