The worst economic crisis of my life was the 2008 financial crash. As readers will know, we had long forseen a crunch coming in the credit m...

 I Know I am like a broken record now, but this is a very tough morning economically for the the world and for the UK. Don't fancy being...

One thing that has surprised me is the reaction of the markets to Brexit. Given that over 50% of market activity is driven by short-term tra...

Stock markets are funny things, they give the right record of the state of the economy until they don't. They rise and fall on s...

  So much for the Santa Rally this year. Normally Fund Managers and other asset investors are keen to lock in their gains for the year ...

It is an easy post to write every year, that stock market crashes happen in September and October. The major ones nearly always do, but...

The Pound has dropped to a low of $1.61 to the Dollar - its lowest for 3 months. it year low is at £1.57 so it is well on the way to being...

Of all the times to do this, at the beginning of September, on anniversary of the Wall Street Crash no less. As most people know, Septe...

Above is the YTD FTSE graph, poor reading it makes. This month has bee an unmitigated disaster though in particular. After an OK star...

Quick round up of C@W views on a few issues of the week, heading into the weekend: - MG Rover - I can't believe the report cost £16 mi...

The image above perfectly describes the market situation today. The FTSE has had 10 straight gain days (assuming it is up today). It means t...

If Alice is not enough to keep our spirits low, in league with The Major, then here is another new website which has a lovely clock just sh...

Even as I write there is speculation of an emergency Cabinet meeting being held this afternoon ahead of the meeting of the Parliamentary La...

The FTSE ended up down today after a month of spectacular gains, it had the odd bad day last week too. The US markets were the same , as ban...

This is the Dow Jones on Friday. This is the reaction to the bail out. A 157 point fall. Is this a case of buy the rumour and sell the news?...