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The Evil Diaries: Quindell Continues to Muddle Me

Evil discusses Ithaca Energy, Afren and Quindell… My correspondent in the matter of Ithaca (IAE) opines: ”- Ithaca’s $300m 2019…

Following The Hedge Funds Short: Nanoco, Tungsten, GW Pharma?

Although in theory it makes no difference to a technical analyst whether they call a stock or market long or…

Binary bet of the week: Should we really party like it’s 1999?

By Dave Evans of Binary.com  This week there have been numerous newspaper headlines riffing on a similar theme – “Stock…

Thursday’s Stock Market report featuring ITV, RBS, Ladbrokes and Reach4Entertainment

The Markets At the London close the Dow Jones had slipped by 4.31 points to 18,220.26 and the Nasdaq was…

Monetary Policy Targets the Average, Not You

Economic analysis by Filipe R. Costa I came across a very interesting article on WSJ describing how the franc uptrend…

“Unlikely” Recovery Plays: blinkx, Globo, Monitise

Perhaps just as interesting as the record high for the FTSE 100 is the way that over the past week…

Robert Sutherland Smith Uncovers Value at Rio Tinto

By Robert Sutherland Smith The results just published for BHP Billiton (BLT) came as a bit of a surprise. They…

Wednesday’s Stock Market report featuring Sky, Whitbread, Supergroup and Plus500

    The Markets More trouble for the banks as it emerged that RBS has suspended a further two employees…

Zak Mir on the FTSE 100: New High, The 15 Year Wait Is Over

I have to admit that the occasion of the first new FTSE 100 record close in 15 years is one…

HSBC: After the Deluge

By Robert Sutherland Smith The one thing that I have always liked about HSBC (HSBA) was the legacy of those…