One of the great conundrums in the financial markets, apart from people trying to work out exactly what the Bank of England Governor Mark Carney does (once setting aside marathon running), is when/how the mining sector may actually snap out of its multi year doldrums. In fact, even though as late as 2010 this particular…
I have been somewhat chuffed by my recent contributions to Master Investor Magazine. In the first issue I called BG Group (BG.), just before the bid (lucky), but there was a method in the madness. Then in the latest issue, my message for Sterling was that above $1.50 it could head to $1.60. This may…
Now that the event logjam of the General Election is out of the way, and the FTSE 100 seems to be relatively comfortable above 7000, it may be said that to look at the AIM market may now be timely for those who want to add a little adrenaline to their investments. Given that this…
At first glance it may be said that discussing the ins and outs of UKIP’s former leader is somewhat off topic in terms of the Master Investor remit. But of course, given the way that Nigel Farage spoke twice at Master Investor and has been interviewed both by Jim Mellon this year and by myself…
It has been a somewhat surreal lead up to the General Election, with the FTSE 100 holding near 7,000, and Sterling holding above $1.50 despite all the uncertainties. Presumably most of us are in denial regarding how much turbulence there could be in the wake of the most hung of hung parliaments. Presumably, things could…
ZM: David Buik, City Legend, are there any qualifications required for this type of job if someone wants to follow in your footsteps? DB: That’s a very difficult question because they don’t come more of a Luddite than myself, nor more uneducated for that matter – the only exams I ever passed were seven…
With leading stocks having hit record highs, at least in terms of the FTSE 100, it may be argued that recent months have seen that long awaited catch up game from the small caps area put on hold. Clearly some of this is a result of pre-general election caution, but it remains to be seen…
One of the best rules around and the most long-lasting is the way that HM Government and the City simply do not mix. The best example of this at the moment is the announcement that Royal Bank Of Scotland (RBS) has lost £50 billion since it was bailed out to the tune of £46 billion…
I have to confess that it is difficult for me to resist taking a look at the best of the recent bunch of AIM stocks on a weekly basis for Master Investor Magazine, if only to prove that while this part of the market may have some Wild West characteristics, this makes it all the…
The cliché as far as the top market capitalisation stocks are concerned is that elephants do not gallop. This suggests that moves to both the upside and hopefully even the downside tend to be of a pedestrian nature. However, as anyone following an “elephant” such as Tesco (TSCO) will have discovered in the recent past,…
