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VICTORIA BISCHOFF: One good side effect from lockdown

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Lockdown has created a financial chasm. For millions, the crisis has dealt a devastating blow to their livelihoods, leaving families unable to afford essentials. Around one in six homeowners has taken a mortgage holiday, with many also suspending credit card, car and loan repayments. But as we reveal, there is an emerging group who say … Read more

Tried and trusted principles to rebuild your investment portfolio post Covid

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Joe Little is global chief strategist at HSBC Asset Management Joe Little is global chief strategist at HSBC Asset Management. The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  Over $7trillion has been wiped off global stock markets since the beginning of the year, bond yields are at … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Negative interest rates do harm

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RUTH SUNDERLAND: Negative interest rates are an insidious way of making savers finance Government’s debt pile, but economies that victimise the thrifty seldom thrive in the long run By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 22:20 BST, 31 May 2020 | Updated: 22:29 BST, 31 May 2020 Savers, collectively, are losing billions of pounds … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Coronavirus pandemic skewers EU

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ALEX BRUMMER: No one can look at troubles inside the EU with any equanimity – it is the UK’s biggest trading partner and a critical market By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:22 BST, 29 May 2020 | Updated: 22:22 BST, 29 May 2020 As the world faces the deepest slump since the … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Landlords take a brutal beating

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Amid the constant tussle between commercial landlords and retailers it is the property owners who are often portrayed as villains. Traditional bugbears such as upward-only rent reviews play their part in this. But retailers also have had to contend with business rates, rises in the national living wage, challengers from overseas and online competition. This … Read more