Today we consider a way to play cheap fuel prices which directly offsets one of our oil plays. Plus, we plan to take the train. And we report on global energy, pharma and food stock happenings.

What is astonishing about the way banks cheated their clients by colluding to fix exchange rates to extract higher sums is not only that they did this to what they called “Numpty's”, but when they did this.

For the stock market conniptions of the past two weeks, lower oil prices were a sideline in the panicky and bizarre sell-offs.

Commodity prices do not move in lockstep with each other. In the olden days, people used the price of copper to forecast economic growth.

The ballots being delivered to the few polling places that were open in Donetsk seem to have been pre-marked. They showed an X on the words "tak" and "da", yes in Ukrainian and Russian respectively. Plus more global financial news updates.

Also Russell Jones and Rose Ferrer on emerging market bond risks; A renewed push for Mideast peace will boost ITRN; Betting on Electrovaya (EFLVF) and more international stock news follows.