A spate of doom laden headlines this weekend highlighting the worrying developments in various flashpoints around the globe and which increased in intensity last week stood out like a beacon on a dark night to me in the face of continued lofty equity prices. Scanning through various newswires and newspapers, here is just a sample…
Risers: Interek Group +0.17% Interek Group has today reported a 9.8% increase in full year pretax profits to £281.8m, up from £256.6m a year earlier. Revenue was also reported 6% higher at £2.18bn with the group adding profit for 2014 is set to improve. Chief Executive Wolfhard Hauser has said: “Variable market conditions in the second…
Amid a weekend of increased tensions between Russia and Ukraine, global markets have reacted dramatically with Spreadex calling the FTSE 100 down around down around 76 points. With the Ukraine geopolitical situation continuing to get worse, investors have sought a safe haven in precious metal Gold. The yellow metal has seen a $20 spike increase…
Buy Nikkei: Above 14,000 Targets 18,000 Recommendation Summary: How to lift the Japanese economy out of a post-crash/bubble implosion in 1990 has been one of the greatest examples of trying to scale the North face of the Eiger for policymakers in the land of the rising sun for pretty much 20 years now. Unfortunately, despite…
The heat in the equity markets is back on. This week, the S&P 500 reached a new all-time high and investors are gaining confidence again. Howard Marks thinks that stocks have more room to run. But at the same time he warns that from now on, a higher level of caution is appropriate. As reason…
PICK OF THE DAY Jupiter Fund Management PLC JUP:LSE BUY Today we’ve picked the Jupiter Fund Management Plc. as our pick of the day. Jupiter Fund Management is a United Kingdom-based holding company for a group of investment management companies. The Company and its subsidiaries offer a range of asset management products. Through its subsidiaries, the Company acts as investment manager…
Our dear founder has suggested that I take a look at the current position at Heritage Oil (HOIL). On the face of it he is looking for a charting call, something which I am pleased to do on the basis that the smaller, more speculative explorers are amongst my most favoured area of the market.…
We present below the roster of collective analyst opinions going into todays results… Moral of the story? Do not ever, ever, ever listen to these so called experts and always, repeat, always trade against “anal”yst consensus. Once more they have totally proved our article here on page (26) -http://issuu.com/spreadbetmagazine/docs/spreadbet_magazine_v14_generichttp://issuu.com/spreadbetmagazine/docs/spreadbet_magazine_v14_generic
