If somebody said to you; ‘how much do you spend on groceries in any given week’ or ‘how long does it take to walk to your local bus, train or ferry stop’, the odds are you would be able to provide a reasonably accurate response?
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The Chinese corporate regulator has taken an unprecedented step to reduce volatility in mainland share markets by restricting large scale stock sales within 30 days of annual or semi-annual statements being issued to the market.
Just like many things made in China, the Chinese stock market is like …
The hand holding and back slapping warmth generated at the weekend’s 2020 soiree in Australia’s capital is not being reflected out in investorland it seems.
The philosophical debate of individual responsibility was reflected not in Canberra over the past few days, but through the sentiment of investors looking …
After the ‘Teflon Tony’ years of his predecessor Blair’s slick premiership, Gordon Brown has endured a rocky ride, with unfavourable comparisons to Mr. Bean over his fallibility.
Partly, this is down to bad luck, with the end of a long period of economic growth now threatened by a …
For one of the world’s major cities and an important financial centre, the choice of candidates in the London mayoral elections next week is distinctly uninspiring.
The incumbent Ken Livingstone, first came to prominence as a left-wing leader of the old Greater London Council (GLC).
The GLC was …
Before Australia was discovered, Europeans thought that all swans were white. “That’s as likely as seeing a black swan” was a commonplace utterance, based on the fact all the swans seen by Europeans at that time were white, leading them to assume swans everywhere were therefore white.
So …


