Stamps, coins and cars are the best investment for wise collectors August 26, 2015 While brokers across the world have presumably been curled up in the foetal position for the last 48 hours following the Chinese stock market crash, ancient British private wealth bank Coutts has been busy researching where we should invest our money next for safe keeping. The answer? Classic cars, stamps and fine wine. [...]
Chinese economic crisis: China cuts rates as a pick-me-up after stock market crash August 26, 2015 Aftershocks from Monday’s chaos rippled through global markets yesterday, with shares bouncing back in parts of the west and China providing a shot in the arm for its battered trading floors and wavering economy. Following the worst worldwide stock market rout in years, the FTSE came out fighting and recorded its biggest one-day rise [...]
US hammered after earlier rally in trading – New York Report August 25, 2015 A STRONG rally on Wall Street evaporated and turned into losses yesterday, as concerns about China’s economy heavily outweighed lower valuations that some investors earlier saw as bargains. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 204.91 points, or 1.29 per cent, to 15,666.44, the S&P 500 lost 25.59 points, or 1.35 per cent, to 1,867.62 and [...]
Chinese stock market crash 2015: Capitalism is not in crisis – but China’s phoney model is August 25, 2015 There's nothing quite like a bout of market volatility to prompt a round of gleeful crowing from the usual suspects that “capitalism is in crisis”. This rather seems to miss the point that failures and successes, winners and losers are all essential and necessary components of an effectively functioning free market. What the [...]
Alibaba’s cloud computing arm Aliyun launches “China’s first” artificial intelligence service August 25, 2015 Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s cloud computing arm is breaking into the artificial intelligence market, launching what the company is proclaiming to be “China’s first AI platform”, which will give developers the capacity to analyse large amounts of data. Cloud computing division Aliyun is Alibaba’s fastest-growing division, and although the company still gets most of its [...]
BHP Billiton share price up six per cent despite pre-tax profits falling 61.7 per cent year-on-year August 25, 2015 BHP Billiton's share price was trading up to six per cent up in morning trading, leading the FTSE 100, despite reporting a significant fall in pre-tax profits for the year to the end of June, missing analysts' expectations, amid falling commodity prices. The figures BHP Biliton reported pre-tax profits of $8.67bn (£5.50bn), 61.7 per cent lower. The [...]
FTSE 100, Dax and Cac rise as hangover sets in after China stock market crash August 25, 2015 After making its worst losses since 2003 yesterday, the FTSE rose almost three per cent per cent in mid-morning trading, nudging back above 6,000. Meanwhile, the Dax rose 3.2 per cent and the Cac rose 3.1 per cent, suggesting that while European markets were nursing a hangover, the worst may be over. The rebound followed [...]
Black Monday 2015: Here’s the market index which mattered most according to Google searches August 25, 2015 Black Monday may have started with the Chinese economy, but it was the Dow which ended up gaining most of the world's attention online. Search interest in the unfolding events on the world markets focused on the US index more than any other in the majority of countries around the globe, according to data from Google. [...]
Chinese economic slowdown: Devaluation and volatility should not put off Western retailers August 25, 2015 The surprise decision by the China's central bank to devalue its currency on three consecutive days has been linked to China’s state authorities’ attempts to boost its struggling economy. It is, however, unlikely to cause significant disruption to many Western retailers who are supplying in the region. The correction may have been a gesture to [...]
China stock market crash 2015 : When a correction becomes a buying opportunity – CNBC Comment August 25, 2015 The definition of “Correction Territory” is when a market sees a downward move from a recent high of 10 per cent or more. Being down over 15 per cent since its high in April, for example, the broad-based European Stoxx 600 index is now officially in correction. But with many European stock market indices down [...]