Ruth Strachan is a senior reporter at Investment Monitor, focusing on manufacturing, mining and commodities. She joined from the Financial Times, where she worked as a content editor in the events division FT Live. In this role she wrote content for various global events across a number of topics including FDI, technology, C-suite roles and compliance. Before this, she was a journalist at DC Thomson.
The emerging super cycle in commodity markets has many people excited, but those tempted to full-on embrace this boom would be well advised to look more closely at the circumstances surrounding it.
The US once dominated the manufacturing world and the blame for its decline falls far and wide. Was it China? Mexico? Globalisation? Robots? Republicans? Democrats? Investment Monitor takes a deep dive.
The Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998 and since then Northern Ireland's fortunes have, for the most part, been on the rise, but how responsible is the GFA for these improvements?
With every passing election, Scotland seems to move closer to independence. Investment Monitor explores the obstacles the country would face should it leave the UK.
The UK government barely seems to let a week pass without talking up its global leadership in green energy, but the reality on the ground is somewhat different.
ASOS and XPO have announced that a new facility in Lichfield, Staffordshire, is set to open August 2021 in a boost to the region's growing e-commerce sector.
If Scotland backs the SNP in a big way in the May elections, a second independence referendum will move much closer. Hopefully both sides will listen to and respect each other this time around.
The rise of the SNP in recent years and the UK's departure from the EU have led to cries for another Scottish independence referendum, but the key to knowing where Scotland is heading can only be found by understanding its past.
The skills gap, along with hefty student debt figures, has plagued the US for many years. Promoting a more creative approach to jobs and career development among Generation Z would help to solve both issues.
Newcastle and the North East are famed for their warm welcome, which has helped them to attract major investments from the likes of Nissan and Britishvolt, as well as many major business services providers.
The UK has a long history of innovation; however, its start-ups are struggling to scale up. The British aversion to risk and success is partly to blame, along with a poor funding infrastructure.
January saw the biggest drop in manufacturing exports from the UK to the EU since 1997. With excessive paperwork plaguing the industry, could Covid-19 offer it some space to work through issues within the Brexit deal?
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