Monkey Darts Bulletins

The biggest story for investors over the last two years was the US-China trade war. Two superpowers vying for supremacy, with knock-on effects rippling around the world. Still, markets shook it all off... and marched on up, as they had since the April 2009. Then the...

Recently I’ve found myself looking at pictures of dangerous pathogens. Many of the pictures were produced by Dr Elizabeth Fischer of the Rocky Mountain Laboratories. Dr Fischer has spent three decades creating images of deadly diseases: from Ebola to HIV and...

I read a thought-provoking piece on risk this week. It was about how a terrible event changed one man’s outlook on life and how he thinks about risk. And it absolutely reinforced something I’ve always known to be true about investing. That is, that you need to...

The treatment only takes a few minutes. A smartly dressed concierge invites you into the examination room and you are invited to sit on a comfortable reclining chair. A clinician takes a needle and without fanfare, she takes a sample of cells from the fatty tissue for...

  Robert was right when he said on Tuesday that stocks had a good year. Even despite the negative headwinds. Don’t forget, there was plenty of bad stuff going on in the year. The uncertainty hanging over the UK due to endless delays with Brexit for one. The...

Last year was a pretty decent year for stocks, all told. The FTSE 100 was up about 12% over the year: the best performance in three years. The AIM market was up 8%. And I think that made it easier to find growth stocks. Several of the shares I wrote about last year...

According to JP Morgan analysts, the average private investor is doomed to fail. Why? Because he or she does everything wrong. They tend to jump on the ‘hot’ investments as they peak... And dump the out-of-favour assets as they bottom out. In other words, they tend to...

There’s a whole lot of uncertainty in the markets right now. There always is, of course. No one can ever know for sure what will happen. We don’t know whether Boris Johnson will storm to victory today. Or whether Jeremy Corbyn has done enough to force a hung...

Today's phone cameras have a series of features that help us to take memorable photographs. We have the zoom function. We have filters to keep us looking fresh. With HDR, we can take repeated exposures and then blend them into a single shot.     The latest iPhones use...

“The President made you chairman of the Fed... You are deeply in his debt. He expects you to be loyal.”  Those were the words of John Ehrlichman, Richard Nixon’s Chief Domestic Adviser. He was talking to Chairman of the Federal Reserve Chairman, Arthur Burns, in 1971....

Mouse McCoy is a professional stuntman and motorcycle racer. In 2003, he became the first motorcycle soloist o complete the Baja 1000. And went on to dominate the sport: with class wins in the Baja 1000 for 2002, 2005, and 2007. Then he turned his hand to films:...