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“Everything has changed; and yet nothing has changed.” Along with resolutions to invest in some hair dye, significant anniversaries always prompt comparisons with the circumstances surrounding previous milestones. Since MoneyWeek’s first edition 1,20

Japan’s central bank has raised interest rates for the first time in 17 years. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has been the last global hold-out for ultra-loose money, even as other central banks have tightened policy. Japanese inflation is now running sligh

There are still no challengers to King Dollar’s throne. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of major trading partners’ currencies, has gained 13% over the past three years as US growth has outstripped that seen in other pa

Have China’s stocks turned a corner? asks Weilun Soon in The Wall Street Journal. The benchmark CSI 300 index has fallen for the past three years. During the rout, more than $6trn was wiped off stock values – equivalent to roughly double the value of

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered the prestigious Mais Lecture on Tuesday, setting out a Labour government’s plans to secure higher growth and greater prosperity, says Stephen Bush in the Financial Times. Summoning up the spirit of Margaret T

AstraZeneca tacks on Fusion: Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has bought Canadian biotech firm Fusion Pharmaceuticals for $2.4bn, says Ian Johnston in the Financial Times. The deal will help AstraZeneca, which specialises in cancer treatments, to dev

Newly published statistics have intensified fears that the UK workforce is experiencing a mental-health crisis of unprecedented proportions, especially among young people – raising worrying questions over the future of our economy, society and public

unherd.com The “obsessive” media coverage of the waves of immigrants coming from Mexico and across the Mediterranean “elides the most important modern migration story of them all”, says Peter Heather. Many times more people have been on the move wit

The public perception of private equity is of large, anonymous, unaccountable investors who buy mature businesses (such as Asda, Morrisons and the utilities), largely financed with debt, and do little if anything to improve performance. Their investm

It has been a long time since anyone from overseas tipped British shares. So when Brian Chingono of US investment firm Verdad recently wrote an article entitled “Rule, Britannia!”, it was time to take notice. Chingono says the UK “seems mired in 1970

The UK rail sector appears to be a struggling, quasi-nationalised enterprise with no overall long-term strategy, while the outlook for the private operators running rail services is uncertain. As such, investors may, understandably, wish to avoid Fir

More and more people are facing a knock on the door from the taxman after the death of a loved one. The threshold for when estates become liable for IHT has been frozen at £325,000 since 2009 and will remain so until at least 2028. If the threshold h

More small businesses with relatively low annual sales will soon be beyond the reach of the value-added tax (VAT) system. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced the first increase in the VAT threshold, the level of sales at which businesses must charge

When former CNN boss Jeff Zucker swooped in with an audacious Abu Dhabi-backed bid for the Telegraph Media Group last September, he appeared “confident he would emerge a winner”, says the Financial Times. And why not? Zucker’s RedBird IMI vehicle pro

Palazzo Ripetta is a 17th-century complex that has gone from “convent to Art-Deco icon”, says Maresa Manara for Condé Nast Traveller. Now, it is one of the few remaining independent five-star hotels in Rome, embodying the “kind of edgy elegance” for

Porsche calls its new Panamera the G3 – the third entirely new generation of the big saloon, says Illya Verpraet in Autocar. It builds on the model that came out in 2016 and that’s fine, because the outgoing Panamera is still a “very compelling car”.

The Old Rectory, The Green, Wickhambreaux, Kent. A Grade II-listed Queen Anne house set in landscaped garden with a swimming pool in a walled garden with a gym and changing rooms. It has period fireplaces and a wine cellar. 8 beds, 3 baths, 3 receps,

This week’s apparently hopeless Four Spades was given a chance when the Icelandic West led a Heart (anyone for a passive Trump?). Declarer, Michel Bessis of France, played low from dummy and East, unwisely as events were to show, also played low. Dec

Between theory and practice is, alas, real life. And in real life, in America circa 2024, things are not at all as bright as Joe Biden might have you believe. The latest inflation data show that prices rose 3.2% in February from a year earlier, the “