My first memories of the alleged benefits of the EU in the 1970s, apart from the free trading zone between member countries, were the prospect of passport free travel (yes, I believed that at the age of 9) and the prospect of a single currency. But it has to be said, and it is not…
FTSE 100 None reporting FTSE 250 Galliford Try (GFRD) – that its Morrison Construction business has achieved financial close on the £45.2 million Hub South East Scotland Ltd contract for NHS Lothian to build and operate the first phase of the redevelopment of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. AVEVA (AVV) – has acquired 8over8 Limited from…
In order to get a “balanced” perspective on the markets, politics and life in general, I tend to read just two websites, The Telegraph and The Guardian. Of course, the Financial Times should also be included in this list. But historically, apart from the “No FT, No Comment” slogan which was first rate, the House…
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Although even I have been known to describe the AIM market as the Wild West of the stock market, and others describe in terms of which the best is probably “casino”, I am a great believer in the concept. Indeed, if you look at the percentage risers on AIM for 2014 – ostensibly something of…
Just to keep the festive mood going a little longer it seems appropriate to look at some of the year’s better stock market performers from the FTSE 100 and see whether they did reveal themselves in a charting way ahead of their respective bull runs. Perhaps the best way forward here is first to look…
One of the least impressive aspects of the financial markets these days, apart from the way that almost everyone appears to be an expert, is that there is almost no reference to anything which happened prior to the financial crisis. It is also interesting that there is a cult of youth in the City, as…
CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW TO VIEW TODAY’S VIDEO Spreadbet Magazine editor Zak Mir takes a look at the technical position of some of the bulletin board stocks of the moment amongst private investors. Here are the key points from today’s video: Fitbug (FITB): December so far has delivered an island bottom reversal based at the 50…
It’s amazing how much time the press and investors spent analysing the wording used by the FOMC in its latest monetary policy statement and how seriously they tried to extract the degree of dovishness from Janet Yellen’s face in the press conference that followed. Everybody was angrily looking for clues about the path that interest…
by Dave Evans of binary.com Coming into the close on Friday, the Russia Ruble had finally stabilised against the US dollar. As the chart below demonstrates, although the dramatic central bank interest rate hike may eventually have hit the mark, the USD/RUB is still painfully high. USD/ RUB As expected, Vladimir Putin came out fighting this…
