After falls in Europe and the US on Friday, Asian markets were mixed at the start of the week as the coronavirus death toll continued to climb.On currency markets the pound lost 0.5% to $1.239 while in commodities gold lost 0.8% to $1,612/oz.However, the big news was in the oil market where the price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia pushed Brent crude to an 18-year low of $23/barrel and New...

'There has never been a better time for big companies to undertake an initial public offering,' or IPO, confidently state analysts at Salt Invest, the stock market trading house.Stock markets around the world have recently been hitting successive record highs, creating just the sort of conditions to tempt some of the mega private companies to finally make their move into public markets.Last...