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In October 2006, the spot price of uranium went from $19 per pound (lb) to $143/lb in seven months. That move was so violent it altered how I thought about commodity markets entirely. That parabolic acceleration is not an accident. It is the direct expres

Shipping services group Clarkson (LSE: CKN) has emerged over the last few decades as a global shipbroking franchise, with its shares rising from 90p at the turn of the century to over £50 per share today. Clarkson was founded in 1852 and has been listed o

Is the UK too centralised and will devolution help?Devolution has long created separate administrations for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, rather creating the illusion that the British state must be a quasi-federal one. But the whole of England - 8

Nationwide has increased interest rates on its fixed term savings accounts and ISAs, with customers now able to get up to 4.7% on their cash savings. The higher rates are available if you lock your money away to grow for a fixed amount of time, with no wi

Millions of households face further water bill rises to fund £3.4 billion worth of investment in the network.The regulator Ofwat has provisionally approved a package of funding to increase capacity, provide cleaner drinking water and upgrade treatment sit

The UK's investment trusts are declining in popularity with the country's investor base, new research suggests.Financial consumer site Boring Money's latest investment trust report shows that investment trust ownership among UK investors has fallen to its

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Stamp duty land tax is another cost to factor into the equation when buying property in England or Northern Ireland.It is applied at different rates depending on the value of the property, if the home you're buying costs more than £125,000. That threshold

Even if you do not invest much in bonds, the bond markets are hugely important. Jim Leaviss, the former M&G bond guru, who sadly passed away last month, was fond of saying that "there is nothing more fascinating than a fixed-income instrument". There is a

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