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Lessons from a distant past: Bernard Baruch. By Frederik Vanhaverbeke

Lessons from a distant past: Bernard Baruch. By Frederik Vanhaverbeke

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In the third of a new series for SBM Frederik Vanhaverbeke, author of Excess Returns: A comparative study of the methods of the world’s greatest investors, looks at how some of the world’s greatest investors are so successful. A man with no special pipeline of information will study the economic facts of a situation and…

The Morning News Update with Shire, Whitbread, Go Ahead and ASOS

The Morning News Update with Shire, Whitbread, Go Ahead and ASOS

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FTSE 100 Shire (SHP) – AbbVie terminates offer for Shire, with the break fee of $1.635 billion now payable. Meggitt (MGGT) – has secured  a multi-million dollar contract for an advanced wheel and braking system for Gulfstream Aerospace’s new G500 and G600 business jets. William Hill (WMH) – Group net revenue grew 23% in Q3 and…

The Badger of Broad Street muses the mixed up markets

The Badger of Broad Street muses the mixed up markets

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What an interesting week we’ve just had in the markets. Six weeks after hitting new highs on global equities, we’ve just experienced a 10% correction. Meanwhile, this was supposed to be year global bond markets collapsed, but last week government bond yields were pretty much near all-time lows. (Meaning bond prices have been close to…

Zak Mir on The Return Of ZaksTradingCafe

Zak Mir on The Return Of ZaksTradingCafe

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Tuesday October 21st, 6pm, Holiday Inn Regents Park Register for this free event by CLICKING HERE For someone of my advancing years it may be said that the ultimate in cool is still Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior and the rest of the Rat Pack “performing” at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas. Clearly,…

QE Forever (not Santa!) Is Coming To Town…

QE Forever (not Santa!) Is Coming To Town…

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The New Santa Ms Yellen! This Christmas it is looks as if it is not only Santa that is coming to town but also yet another round QE. Yes, you heard it right, literally a few days after the last QE taper ended, talk from the Fed’s Bullard is that there could be a case…