High dividend yields are not always a good thing. We cite two examples where high yields came along with high risks.

The US Fed Reserve moved to lower interest rates to zero overnight, in what was the largest single-day rate cut since the Global Financial Crisis.

An investor’s first-hand account of what it was like to live through Black Monday, the worst 1-day crash in stocks in the US market.

It has been eleven years since the previous severe bear market. Here are three important lessons gleaned from that harrowing event.

In distressing times, the balance sheet rather than the profit and loss account should be our first port of call.

The leaders of the G7 will hold an emergency meeting by videoconference on Monday.