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The Evil Diaries: We Are Governed by Wallies

Evil discusses Phosphorus Holdco Plc senior bonds, South African kleptocrats and the Miliband-Fink tax avoidance spat… I have bought Phosphorus…

The Badger of Broad Street on What’s Really Happening in Europe

Yet again I find myself wondering about what’s really happening in Europe. In a conventional world, the fact that European…

FTSE 100 Heavyweight Stocks: Partying Like it’s 1999!

By Zak Mir As most followers of leading UK stocks will be aware, they have woefully underperformed their US counterparts,…

Is plain packaging the death knell for British American Tobacco? As Holmes might have said to Watson, “ A two pipe job” I think, Watson!”

By Robert Sutherland Smith British American Tobacco (BATS) - known familiarly as BATS - is a bit of a challenge.…

Thursday’s Stock Market Report from UK-Analyst: featuring Mark Carney, the IMF, Tullow Oil, Rio Tinto, Zoopla, Circle Oil and eg Solutions

Mark Carney has hinted that the Bank of England may increase interest rates sooner than markets expect, despite the current…

Will European QE Work?

Economic analysis by Filipe R. Costa You can now read in the press that European quantitative easing is already working,…

The Evil Diaries: Caught in Flagrante

Evil discusses Dominic Strauss-Khan, Amira Nature Foods and Geiger counter… It is recorded that a long dead British prime minister,…

London Falling?

By Zak Mir Earlier in the week it was widely reported that those strange creatures allegedly responsible for many of…

Wednesday’s Stock Market Report featuring Moody’s, Sky, Reckitt Benckiser, Telecity, Red24 and DP Poland

The Markets Rating agency Moody’s said that cheaper oil will not significantly accelerate global economic growth due to the negative…

It’s Time To Prepare For Rising Volatility

Economic analysis by Filipe R. Costa While investors became euphoric in 2008 with the launch of the first QE programme…