Record quarterly reports that completely blew market expectations out of the water have led to Apple regaining its position as the world’s most valuable company. The company’s first-quarter profits have now more than doubled year-on-year, in turn leading to the company’s share price jumping by 6.65pc to $448.5 per share in early trading. This in [...]

American billionaire Warren Buffett has just bought his hometown newspaper, The Omaha World-Herald Co., for $150 million at a time when print journalism has never been weaker and newspaper companies are folding faster than pages on a brand new Twilight book. However, Buffett said, “I wouldn’t do this if I thought this was doomed to [...]

This is a question that comes up frequently among my group of friends (almost exclusively made of university graduates). When we all trundled off to university 6 years ago we went because everyone went to university; we thought we would get a job with a degree, our parents told us it was the right thing [...]

So much happens in the world of finance and it’s easy to get confused about what is going on, so here is our pick of the news stories we think you should know about: Commodities The price of oil has taken a slight dip recently due to the improving situation in Libya. As the rebels [...]