Equities

Centrica shares due a bounce?

Centrica at 268p, after the interim figures. The management with these results has demonstrated that it has stopped the rot…

Primark’s Secret: Thrift is Cool

The Credit Crunch of 2008, and its aftermath, changed the way we think and spend. From the time that the…

Barclays looks set for rising returns

Summer seems to be ‘a coming in’ to judge from the first half results for the current year; not so…

Are Unilever Shares as Dear as Their Products?

The first-half results were not enough to push these shares higher. They look dear and vulnerable to any further disappointing…

Keep Calm, Carry on and Buy Glencore

With the dramatic Glencoe massacre of Chinese equities as a background and after its 44% fall in share price, I am…

Mellon on the Markets

Note to readers: Henceforth, Jim's musings will be published in real-time on the Master Investor website as well as every…

Recovery Prospects at RSA?

RSA shares look good value on the basis of recovery or as an alternative fate, playing its own part in…

Has Sprue Aegis’s Fire Gone Out?

Sprue Aegis is a great British company which I have covered for many years, ever since it was listed on…

PayPal’s new playpen

Like Oedipus before it, PayPal has (sort of) slayed its father eBay and taken the e-commerce seller’s place on the…

Carnival: Cruising to a Nice Return

How will you spend your holidays, this summer? We all need them and we are prepared to pay good money…