28 Feb 2013 Cantor Opening Call The FTSE is seen gaining a further 30-35 points this morning, after the quick bout of profit taking earlier this week UK Corporate Announcements RBS announces a full year net loss of £5.97bn from £2bn and cuts its bonus pool to £215m from £360m, with investment bank full year…
While some analysts spend hours reading annual reports trying to evaluate the future prospects of a company (tip – they’d be better down the pub going by their record as we reveal in the latest edition of our unique magazine out on Thurs), or poring over industry data and listening intently to conference calls, there…
AIM Stocks only really became something of an obsession on my part from the early autumn of last year as previously, I was mostly covering the blue chips or smaller companies listed on the main market. Therefore, my interest in the likes of Bowleven (BLVN) has all the zeal of those newly converted to the…
For more interesting research & professional Technical Analysis from Cantor Index click here to register for free. Cantor Opening Call The FTSE is seen opening around flat to just a touch higher UK Corporate Announcements Centrica announces a full year profit of £1.27bn with 2012 revenues up 5% to £23.9bn and details that Phil Bentley…
26 Feb 2013 Cantor Opening Call The FTSE is seen opening down a significant 90 points lower today after US and Asian markets came off overnight on renewed European concerns UK Corporate Announcements GKN announces 2012 pre-tax profit of £588m up 68% with sales up 13% to £6.51bn Elementis details full year…
UPDATE (1) – Looks like somebody forgot to give the pound the script that it was supposed to crash today… See the 2 day chart below. Looks like the “anal”ysts have got it wrong. Again..!! Perhaps it pays to read a truly independent, unbiased, sometimes controversial publication run by proper traders and not blithe journo’s…
Stocks Making New Highs: The chart below shows the five-day average of the percentage of stocks at new annual highs, with the S&P 500 overlaid. We can see that in 1997, the percentage of stocks at new highs reached well over 10% before collapsing in 1998 during a market pullback. However, the market quickly recovered and…
25 Feb 2013 Cantor Opening Call The FTSE is seen starting the week up around 20 points UK Corporate Announcements Bunzl states that the prospects for the group are positive and states it is in talks with a number of potential targets, as it reports a full year pre-tax profit of £323.9m Pearson…
The chart below is what is called Put:Call option skew – it is a measure of how much more expensive out of the money puts are relative to the same out of the money percent move calls – to many, this is the real “smart” money. We can see that Puts are currently 1.8 times…
