... or are we just a country dominated by a commodities-heavy stock market?   Or something.  Insert your theory here:

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...

Gold has had a very interesting week. It has mooched around $950 for the past 6 months, missing the commodity rally, but then not being hur...

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...

Another Monday, another US bank bail out plan. By my count this is version 2.1. So far the product has failed to meet customer expectation...

Unemployment woes seem to have stopped the shares rally dead today. Sticking by my predictions for the week from Sunday (well, some of them ...

The London Stock Exchange, fresh from a year of ups and downs, has really managed to blow both its feet off with a shotgun today. Just as th...

Many people still find the stock markets a fearful thing and choose not to invest. Property seems like a much simpler bet and people can see...