Risers: Barratt Developments, up 2.2% Barratt Developments raised to overweight from neutral by JPMorgan Cazenove. The majority of UK house builders traded higher this morning after prime minister David Cameron’s announcement that the second part of the government’s “Help to Buy” scheme will launch next week. Shares in Barratt rallied the most in early trading…
By Investment Contrarians Two lines from the song “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield pretty much sum up what we are seeing on the key stock indices here in the U.S. economy: “There’s somethin’ happenin’ here/What it is ain’t exactly clear.” There is too much noise out there: some are saying key stock indices…
Equity investors find themselves attacked on more than one front this morning, with the U.S. budget, Italian politics and China being reason enough for an early run to the exit. Shares across Europe are set to open significantly lower in light of the developing news flow. While this combination of news flow is concerning, the…
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Bank of England Governor Mark Carney caused a strengthening of the pound this morning after investors latched onto his comments to the Yorkshire Post. Governor Carney spoke out against the prospect of further quantitative easing citing the recent strengthening of the recovery and the positive economic signals as the reason. The UK markets witnessed a…
By Ben Turney. The threat of inflation is a regular theme here at Spreadbet Magazine. We are deeply concerned about the long term implications of the excessive easy money policies of the major central banks, since 2008. In the absence of clearly defined exit strategies, the likelihood is that once this money starts seeping out…
By Zak Mir. We try to keep our focus tight at Spreadbet Magazine. This means we avoid topics such as politics, unless there is a chance you can profit from our analysis. It is true that we have our monthly column from David Cracknell in the magazine, but even then his pieces are in the…
Risers: Babcock International, up 1.7% The UK’s leading engineering support services company Babcock International have announced that trading in its markets for the half year ending Sept. 30 has remained positive, and added that results for the 2013/14 financial year will be in line with its expectations. Board remains confident that the group will continue…
By Sasha Cekerevac. It had been a long time since the Federal Reserve really surprised the markets. That is, before last week’s announcement that the central bank was going to keep its foot on the gas pedal—with the “pedal to the metal,” as the saying goes—leaving monetary stimulus in place. As you probably know, at…
