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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.

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A space-age court wrangle

Good week for:

Bad week for:

A transitory respite from inflation

Will King Dollar lose his crown?

America’s red-hot housing market

Viewpoint

Malaysia’s slippery slope

Companies keep their wallets closed

MoneyWeek’s comprehensive guide to this week’s share tips

A German view

IPO watch

City talk

Mining giant quits London • A big shake-up at BHP Billiton will see it leave the FTSE 100 – a blow for income-hungry investors. It is also ditching its oil arm. Alex Rankine reports

Vaccine makers find new pot of gold

America abandons Afghanistan • The US army’s disastrous withdrawal caps two decades of failure. Cris Sholto Heaton reports

The cost of staying – and of leaving

News

The way we live now: a sharp uptick in TikTok investment tips

The economic costs of “zero Covid-19” • Some countries, such as Australia, pursued a strategy of trying to completely suppress the spread of the coronavirus. Did it work? And what does it cost? Simon Wilson reports

A nature reserve for our fledgling apps • Britain has plenty of promising start-ups in the app economy. They could do with some nurturing

Who’s getting what

Nice work if you can get it

Is inflation here to stay? • A new paper suggests that unless workers gain more bargaining power, inflation won’t be sustained

I wish I knew what a VIE was, but I’m too embarrassed to ask

Guru watch

Investing in affordable housing • The private sector must play a role in meeting demand for retirement homes and shared ownership

Activist watch

Short positions... trusts are trimming dividends

Best of the financial columnists

Money talks

A better way to rewild Britain

US inequality evens out

The best career advice

It’s time to abolish capital-gains tax

Hold gold: insuring your portfolio could prove lucrative • Gold has had a grim year, but the backdrop for the traditional safe haven and store of value remains auspicious. There is scope for the price to jump by 30%-40%, says Dominic Frisby

The stocks and funds to buy now

China: rule by law, not rule of law • Beijing’s sudden attack on the online-education sector is a wake-up call for global investors, says Edward Chancellor

Dumb smart meters • The widely trumpeted devices are a fiddly and expensive mess

Time to pay back state aid • Small companies struggling to repay emergency loans have several options

Recovery Loan Scheme flounders

Tesco quits voluntary Prompt Payment Code for small companies

Long-term winners in the post-pandemic world • A professional investor tells us where he’d put his money. This week: Zehrid Osmani, portfolio manager, Martin Currie Global Portfolio Trust

Alex

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