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If Britain Left The EU? It Never Really Joined

By Zak Mir It would appear that on the EU issue people remain polarised between the initial stated benefits of…

Football and economics: The first billion pound football player?

By Richard Gill, CFA It’s no secret that the game of football is one of the biggest on the planet,…

The Great Tesco Turnaround?

By Zak Mir The aftermath of the financial crisis has seen many of the rules regarding both companies and markets…

Joel Greenblatt, the hedge fund hero

by Frederik Vanhaverbeke In the latest of a new series for SBM Frederik Vanhaverbeke, author of Excess Returns: A comparative…

Tuesday’s Stock Market Report featuring UK Industrial Output, BT, Babcock International, Catlin and Sabien Technology

The Markets UK industrial output dropped by 0.2% in December, according to the latest figures from the Office for National…

Panorama and HSBC

Fifty or so years ago, when Panorama kicked off, it was a respected programme. The edition I saw last night…

Evil Diaries Addendum: Transaction Costs

As readers know, we last week featured Crispin Odey’s review of the prospects for Western economies and, quite possibly, others…

Monday’s Stock Market Report featuring India, Poundland, Rolls-Royce, Countrywide, Corac and Plastics Capital

The Markets New official figures disclosed that the Indian Economy grew by 7.5% year-on-year for the quarter between October and…

Binary Bet of the Week: There needs to be a reckoning over Greece

By Dave Evans of Binary.com Following the ECB’s big reveal over its Quantitative Easing programme, the euro has stabilised, but…

Evil Diaries Addendum: Failed murder attempt to be compensated

I met Sean Daley getting on for eight years ago. He had been CEO of Camco Corporation, operating in Kyrgyzstan…