MoneyWeek

MoneyWeek is a weekly magazine that enables you to become a better-informed, smarter investor and enjoy the rewards of managing your money with confidence. Week-in, week-out we'll guide you through the financial world as it changes, alerting you to all the opportunities to profit and dangers to avoid, as they appear. Income strategies, rising-star companies, the best funds and trusts, clever ways to preserve your wealth during market turmoil... you will get the best ideas from the sharpest financial minds and investing professionals in Britain.

From the editor-in-chief...

Trump’s billion-dollar side hustle

Weak Asian currencies fuel global tensions

Poland’s remarkable boom

Global rush to secure tungsten

Fighting talk sends oil up again

Viewpoint

■ Debt threatens the US empire

A UK streaming champion • Could combining ITV and Sky form a national media platform powerful enough to take on Amazon Prime and Netflix? Matthew Partridge reports

Meta aims to recoup mega-spend on AI

Europe’s defence boom has cooled

Farage’s “hissy fit” election • The Reform leader has made a big political gamble. Emily Hohler reports

Japan and China edge into crisis territory

Germany patches up a gloomy picture

News

Andy Burnham’s political project • The prime-minister-in-waiting wants to scale up the success he has enjoyed in Manchester to the rest of the country. Could it work? Simon Wilson reports

Let’s hang on to easyJet • Investors have been busy selling out British companies to foreign buyers. This is one successful company we should want to keep

City talk

Putting our portfolio cash to work • The outlook for the Middle East is still uncertain, but it rarely pays to sit on the sidelines indefinitely

Don’t sell Segro for short-term gain • Trade buyers are snapping up undervalued property stocks as investors wait on the sidelines

Activist watch

Short positions… PrimeStone urges GRID sale

Best of the financial columnists

Money talks

The age of the trickster

Climate change is an opportunity

The return of a punk upstart

SpaceX is space junk

Will AI wipe out all the jobs? • Technological developments have always sparked fears of mass unemployment. How worried should we be this time around? Stuart Watkins reports

The future looks bright for biotech • The industry is coming out of a dark period. Now is a good time to buy in, says David Prosser

The best investments to buy now

Time to check in to Fuller’s • The pub group continues to outperform despite headwinds in the sector

A new way to save for a home • Do the government’s First Time Buyer Isas improve on previous schemes?

Savers regret withdrawals

News in brief... annuities surge in popularity

A safe bet in insurance • Hiscox’s strategy looks sound and the stock is very reasonably valued

Betting on politics... LA’s mayoral race

How my tips have fared

Finding high-quality, profitable companies in emerging markets • A professional investor tells us where he’d put his money. This week: Mark Hammonds, fund manager for Guinness Emerging Markets Equity Income

CLASSIC Alex

L’État, c’est Trump • Donald Trump has treated the presidency as a personal cash machine and is the most corrupt holder of that office in the republic’s history. Jane Lewis reports

Just who is “Posh George”?

Make a splash this summer • Cool off on Lake St. Moritz in the Swiss Alps and design your own superyacht in St. Tropez

Wine of the week: three tipples for a summer party

Dropping in on Silverstone • Chris Carter hitches a ride aboard a Flexjet...