Archive for the 'Finance news' Category

Interesting to get the news that Japan have cut their base rate to just 0.30%. The Times reported today that cut is inline with growing concern that their economy may be falling into a recession. It also follows a 0.5point cut by the US Fed earlier in the week.
I wonder what knock on effect a [...]

I won’t pretend to understand hedge funds . . . all I know about them is the rumoured wealth accumulated by their captains! It seems though that a few of them may have come unstuck at the hands of the VW as its share price rocketed & then collapsed in a bizarre twist of fate.
The [...]




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