A financial warning from history. This article was written almost 18 years ago, shortly after the EU formally agreed to introduce the Euro in 1999. What foresight!

It’s important to understand precisely what the fundamentals of a company really are, prior to investing in stocks.

After this year’s large equity market gains driven to a large part by highly accommodative central banks around the world using ultra low interest rates and Quantitative easing, some dangers lurk in the system for investors in 2014.

It’s been a pretty torrid end to the year for our magazine’s biggest call of 2013. Gold has tanked and the market seems to be in complete agreement that further falls are all but guaranteed.

When Bitcoin was created in 2008, we suspect very few people would have imagined just how serious the project would become.

New investors will be well served by studying key terms and concepts involved in understanding the essentials of market operation.

As we enter November, you’d be forgiven for feeling that all is well with the world and we are through the worst of the crisis. However, as we should all be acutely aware of in this QE-manipulated world of ours, face value is an increasingly treacherous commodity

Gold is known as the safe haven investment because it appreciates in value throughout economic uncertainty. But gold’s rise could mean the dollar’s fall as investors move to ensure their portfolio futures.

While the markets appear to be in bullish mood, I’m afraid economists are not and the resounding message I’m getting from my friends in the City is that there is still a lot of work to be done before a sustainable recovery is underway.