Ordinary investors are free to avoid the short-termism that plagues professionals

Recent indications show profitability is coming under pressure

Leading oil and gas companies have a lot to fear from eventual introduction of a carbon tax

Practice has yielded handsome returns in the past but failed to bear fruit in recent years

Opinion: Fears about GMO are not borne out by the science; a rethink is in order

Whatever about the short term, emerging markets can be a very good option

Notion that past gains were inevitable and future is murky is bedevilled by hindsight bias

Merrill Lynch monthly fund manager survey suggests indices haven’t yet bottomed

Conference to hear how anti-GMO groups have hijacked ‘green’ and ‘sustainable’

Department of Agriculture said it was guided by European Food Safety Authority on use of Roundup

Ethical investors can outperform if they engage with corporate sinners

Green criticism has undermined public and political confidence in GMOs but science proves they are no riskier than more traditional methods

Denis Naughten recommends opting out of directive on GMOs

Bears see this as temporary but bulls think profit margins have risen to a permanently higher plateau

Stocktake: with value stocks in a slump, the tortoise and hare approach may lose its appeal

Stocktake: Bitcoin ‘virus’ peaks; Barclays’ equity study; Buffet the billionaire boy

Is it really that difficult to go against the herd? In a nutshell, yes

Performance does not persist, as shown by the latest scorecard from S&P Dow Jones Indices

Why is herding such a problem in financial markets?

Stocktake: despite strong market rebound, stocks likely to retest recent lows

Stocktake: Investors are still jumping in as FOMO trumps worry of losing money

Stock-pickers promise gains in next slump despite years of underperformance by funds

The last time fund managers were nearly as concerned as now was in the late 1990s

Stocktake: market breadth is a crucial indicator of underlying market health

Markets are exuberant, but irrational exuberance is hard to call

Stocktake: Best-looking analysts get more sensitive information from management – study

Jeremy Grantham’s mea culpa, low volatility, crude predictions, in the red

Is short-termism and a slavish preoccupation with benchmarks by institutional investors hurting markets?

A look around the world’s stock markets

Caucus on outskirts of Des Moines reflects wider pitchfork battle between challengers

Ancient grains, whether from Tutankhamun’s tomb or Noah’s Ark, have transfixed US consumers

An increasing number of strategists believe we are in a secular bull market, with any decline likely to prove fleeting

Investment managers are struggling to give advice as even emerging markets don’t look attractive

Europe wants a trade deal wrapped up by the end of 2014 but US politics may delay any potential pact