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FTSE All World Index (AW01) Sometimes it becomes difficult to get a true perspective on markets from their usual indicators, and it pays to look at market measures that are perhaps less closely followed, and as such, are not influenced by direct index speculation to any degree. This week I ... READ MORE >>

I am reminded of the old adage: ‘the night is always darkest just before the dawn’. We are in a maelstrom of dire predictions and given our often trumpeted ‘strong’ economy has been largely based on debt-fuelled retail spending, the earnings of the City and property price inflation,... READ MORE >>

The charts I use in this column are inevitably either daily or weekly and perhaps on occasion monthly in time interval. They are composed of price bars, each depicting the activity of a discrete time period, and show the range of movement in that period as a vertical line. On each line there... READ MORE >>