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It’s Spring time and love is in the air, along with the usual year-long uncertainties of market life

By Robert Sutherland Smith Markets are too intertwiningly complex for simple rationalisation; so one does not rush get involved with…

Mid Caps Focus: Card Factory, Just East, Ophir Energy

As the FTSE 100 continues to play games with the bulls, having crossed 7,000 briefly this month, we are left…

Thursday’s Stock Market report featuring Bellway, easyJet, ADVFN and Scisys

The Markets The Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee has said that UK markets could be destabilised by a slowdown…

The Evil Diaries Bonus Entry: An Update on Gate Ventures and the FCa’s Reply to Evil’s Letter

I award myself a CBE: I know, I know. And you thought that it is HM Queen who dishes out…

The Evil Diaries: High Jinks north of the border

Evil discusses the City Link Collapse and Sports Direct… More Dacre-originated guff: As has been observed here before, Brummer in…

IAG at 610p – Will the Ascent Continue?

By Robert Sutherland Smith Surveying the market shore line for value, my searching eye was caught by International Consolidated Airlines…

Housing Stocks Predict the General Election

If I had gone to Eton and Oxford, I would certainly have gone into politics, armed with a PPE and…

Wednesday’s Stock Market Report featuring Barclays, United Utilities, Card Factory and TyraTech

The Markets US food titans Heinz and Kraft will merge after 3G and Warren Buffett acquired the latter firm in…

Standard Chartered – down but Not out, at 1120p

By Robert Sutherland Smith   Standard Chartered Bank (STAN) is a South-East Asian and African bank that had it origins in…

The Evil Diaries: One Helluva Task by Way of Proof

Evil discusses the Tesco Shareholders Claims group, Monitise, Bowleven and Tyratech… I may be missing something but I cannot for…