Author: Will Smith

As investors digested statistics showing slower job growth in the United States, European Stocks closed a tumultuous day lower on Friday, but they still had their best week in two months as fears of increasing inflation were eased. According to a data released by the US Labor Department, non farm payrolls expanded by 194,000 jobs…

BlackRock (BLK.N) is attempting to implement true shareholder democracy but only for a select few. On Thursday, the world’s largest fund manager announced that it will offer some of its most important clients more power over how the stocks backing their index-fund assets are voted at company meetings. Given Larry Fink’s strong stance on topics…

Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson alerted just over two weeks ago that a 20% drop in US stocks was a realistic prospect. Since then, the S&P 500 has remained near all-time highs despite bouts of volatility. Skeptics like Wilson can now find a more sympathetic audience as the bond selloff accelerates and stocks drop in Wednesday…

This is clearly a very bad time for the FTSE100 index as it closed at 6,997 after 10 consecutive trading sessions above the 7,000 mark. This decline is considered as the sharpest ever decline since August 19. Notably, the time is also not good for the FTSE250 index, as it fell, even more, by 1.4%…

Some argue that the greatest approach to think about risk as an investor is to think about volatility rather than debt, however, Warren Buffett famously stated, “Volatility is far from equivalent with risk.” We usually prefer to look at a company’s debt utilisation when determining how dangerous it is, because debt overflow can lead to…