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If UK politics were a listed investment, Nigel Farage would be that perpetually volatile stock that analysts keep downgrading, investors keep questioning, and the market simply refuses to ignore. The latest chapter in the Farage saga came in Clacton, where he resigned as MP, triggered a by-election, and then promptly won it again. Farage secured 22,239 votes, comfortably seeing off his nearest challenger, Count Binface, who achieved an eye-catching 9,455 votes. While the re

As is often the case in the summer when market liquidity is at its lowest, volatility has increased as markets have reacted nervously to the early weeks of Kevin Warsh's tenure as Chair of the US Federal Reserve (Fed). This has masked what has been a pretty good earnings season for the hyper-scalers (Microsoft, Amazon etc) who are spending billions of dollars on AI development. In the recent Fed policy meeting, Warsh provided very limited guidance on the future direction of i