For those of you who have noticed it has been a bit quiet here on Money? What Money? over the past couple of months, fear not. The recent market turmoil hasn't caused us to lose all faith in the markets and become insurance salesman, our absence has been down to the something far more mundane; exams.

We've all had our noses hard to the grindstone as we attempt to compensate for the time spent researching stocks (and in my case staring at fx charts) which in retrospect should have been spent studying law, engineering or journalism.

We all finish our exams in the next couple of weeks and rest assured we will be back with a vengence; taking on the might of the FTSE, the guile of the AIM and the utter chaos that is Foreign Exchange.

Ben.