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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...

Doomsday radar remains quiet for now

The Takaichi trade boosts Japan’s shares

Donald Trump bashes the banks

Stocks boom in Brazil

Viewpoint

■ Labour loses crucial lead with City

A fifth bid for Beazley • Zurich Insurance appears determined to secure the British group. But do its sums add up – and what next for the City? Matthew Partridge reports

Chipmaker TSMC goes on a spending spree

Boston Scientific splashes the cash

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

A German view

IPO watch

The collapse of the old world order • How should smaller powers react to the US’s naked assertion of dominance? Emily Hohler reports

Britain struggles to find its place

News

Why does America want Greenland? • The US increasingly sees the world in terms of 19th-century great-power politics and wants to annex the island to secure what it sees as its crucial national interests. Simon Wilson reports

We’re at the end of the Thatcher era

City talk

The right role for crypto • A new listing shows how bitcoin might add value to a portfolio if crypto keeps gaining acceptance

I wish I knew what short-selling was, but I’m too embarrassed to ask

Guru watch

What turns a crash into a crisis? • A popular book on major market slumps misses key lessons, says Max King

Buy now, profit later • Upstart payment providers are taking the world by storm. It’s time to buy in, says Rupert Hargreaves

Best of the financial columnists

Money talks

Another chance to get tech right

Is this the end for paid work?

The art of spending

Rare-earth grip cannot hold

Exciting opportunities in biotech • Pharma’s patent cliff will force big firms to innovate or acquire, says this star performer

Activist watch

Short positions… SFO makes Home Reit arrests

Excess profit in an unloved sector • Coface is a world leader in trade-credit insurance with key competitive advantages in a niche market

Focus on technology to profit from Eastern promise in emerging markets • A professional investor tells us where he’d put his money. This week: Omar Negyal, portfolio manager, JPMorgan Global Emerging Markets Income Trust

Alex

The richest Welshman to walk the Earth • Michael Moritz started out as a journalist on Time before catching the eye of a Silicon Valley titan. He is unnerved by recent political developments, but still defends the tech tycoons. Jane Lewis reports

Venezuela’s Lady Macbeth

A Greek island unlike the others • Nicole García Mérida stays at the luxurious Gundari hotel on the island of Folegandros

Arrivederci, Roma • The new Ferrari Amalfi is an evolution of the stylish coupé it replaces

Wine of the week: an enchanting and complex sweet wine

Property • This week: houses for around £1m – from a Grade II-listed, 18th-century house in Morpeth, Northumberland, to a period property set in the grounds of Shenley Manor, Hertfordshire

Book of the week

How the hoi polloi made their living

Crossword

Trump’s great bond caper • The...