Marcus Ashworth

Clients increasingly want to hold gold as a portfolio hedge, so banks are responding with old-fashioned customer service and commensurate fat fees

[LONDON] There’s no shortage of explanations for Britain’s affordable-housing emergency – overregulation, environmental worries, planning bottlenecks, labour shortfalls or a toxic combination of them ...

A strong, competitive economy can take a firmer currency in its stride, but a struggling euro economy growing at barely 1% is a long way from that

The capriciousness of the world’s most important person means that staying nimble and being willing to scuttle to the sidelines will remain the safest strategy

American government debt is the world’s benchmark for a reason – and that hasn’t changed

Beyond reducing restrictive monetary policy, the central bank must really start looking after the interests of the whole euro area

The UK regulator’s attempt to increase the transparency of its investigations has prompted a storm of protest

With the energy shock now a memory, central bankers require more flexible objectives

UK bonds and stocks are attractive places to park money in the coming months

The greenback is set to weaken as the Fed changes its monetary policy stance