VolAItility After stellar increases in the value of their share prices over the past year, artificial intelligence (AI) chip manufacturers and makers of their component parts went on a roller-coaster…

Second Quarter 2026 Review. April to June 2026 The second quarter of 2026 witnessed a rebound in equity markets after the first quarter of 2026’s gains were largely erased by…

Give Peace a Chance The second quarter’s bounce in equity markets post March’s war-related fall (which erased the gains from January and February) was largely due to the strong price…

Who Wants to be a Trillionaire?! The ongoing impasse in the Middle East with the Strait of Hormuz remaining closed has been overshadowed in financial markets by the stellar performance…

Straitjacket The continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz has caused fuel prices to rise precipitously across the world’s economies, leading to fears of a substantial increase in inflation which…

The final day of February saw the US, in conjunction with Israel, initiate strikes against Iran, toppling its leader in the process. Energy prices rose sharply.  On the last day…

The final day of February saw the US, in conjunction with Israel, initiate strikes against Iran, toppling its leader in the process. Iran’s response, in targeting other regional pro-US states,…

The value of all the world’s above-ground gold rose to USD39trln on Thursday, January 29th. But then fell USD3.4trln on the final business day of January, roughly the market capitalisation…