Shares in Publishing Technology (PTO) have taken a turn for the worse in recent months. That said, the firm stands on the threshold of a major market opportunity, as it taps into demand from traditional publishers to convert their content into digital formats. Publishing Tech is coming to the end of an elongated investment cycle…
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: Hurricane Energy (HUR) Overall, the 2014 chart pattern is of new support coming in above…
There are two reasons. First one is as explained HERE (incidentally in the days after the posting of that piece the stock did rise towards 40p as the chart below shows) and which, in the absence of any material news from Blinkx since the piece was posted, I personally believe that the investment case is now…
FTSE 100 None reporting FTSE 250 Serco (SRP) – adjusted pre-tax profits down by 66% at £33.3 million for the six months to June, dividend flat at 3.1p per share. Appoints current CFO Angus Cockburn as Group Chief Financial Officer as from the end of October 2014. Ladbrokes (LAD) – Group operating profit of £56.8…
Traders and trading have always been associated with money. After all, money is the life blood of the investment industry. For many years (especially since the deregulation of the Financial Markets in the late 1980’s) there has been a certain cache associated with “a job in the City” or with the idea of trading one’s…
Most of us will be familiar with the cliché that a long term investment is a short term one that went wrong. Related to this in my mind is the idea of having bought a stock for the dividend. This usually happens when someone goes long of a stock at the “bottom” and then sees…
High-summer is seldom a good time for markets. Nervous trading and thin volumes never make for a positive upside story. Stocks have corrected. But this year it feels even worse as market participants worry more about the widespread threats of disorderly corrections and routs. There are a number of reasons why. It’s not just the…
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: Bowleven (BLVN) The pullback from the sharp June bull trap through 45p continues. Ideally,…
FTSE 100 Coca Cola HBC (CCH) – pre-tax profits up by 45% at €95 million for the six months to June. FTSE 250 Balfour Beatty (BBY) – has concluded that the current proposal from Carillion is not in the best interests of Balfour Beatty shareholders. Also posts underlying pre-tax profits down by 53% at £22…
Zak Mir interviews “Master Investor” and Sunday Times Rich List favourite Jim Mellon on Tip TV CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW TO VIEW THE VIDEO Jim Mellon will be headlining the Master Investor 2015 show, to be held on Saturday 25th April in Islington, London. To pre-book your ticket for next year’s Master Investor conference CLICK…
