The argument behind the so-called January Barometer is that a positive first month in the stock markets is very often a precursor to a positive year as a whole. [...]

Many are looking upon China to 'drag' the world economy out of the doldrums, however, data released on Thursday shows that China's exports and imports grew at their slowest [...]

The Euro continues to fall against the USD, however, should we be surprised? Not withstanding the issues surrounding the current Euro debt issues - currencies will often revert back to what is [...]

Modern Portfolio Theory makes a preposition that diff assets move in different (some say opposing) directions particularly when markets experience periods of high volatility. However during extreme periods of [...]

Everyone is familiar with the major emerging markets such as China, India, Brazil and Russia, however, there are a new set of emerging market contenders that are set to [...]

As we have featured before, within this blog, it is very interesting to see how by exercising a bit of discipline we really can make for a comfortable financial [...]

This blog is very much about offering independent comment and information on all matters relating to financial planning and the financial markets. However, I just want to take this [...]

If there is one financial institution that makes money whether markets are going up, down left right or diagonal ways, it is Goldman Sachs, or GS for short. Some [...]