ALEX BRUMMER: Rolls-Royce defies the bears

Amid the carnage on world markets caused by fears surrounding the coronavirus health catastrophe, not all shares were deeply in the red. On a day when the FTSE 100 dropped 3.2 per cent and shares of Willie Walsh’s International Airlines Group plummeted 8.4 per cent, stock in Britain’s aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce was the great … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Coronavirus is a game-changer for globalisation

Markets were still reeling yesterday following the turmoil on Monday due to fears over coronavirus, and we are not out of the woods, either in terms of the health crisis or as investors. No one, not even the world’s leading epidemiologists, knows how this is going to unravel. What we do know is that coronavirus … Read more