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Viva Espana! Ibex continues to make up lost ground. 7000 beckons…

Following yesterdays posts where we opined on the implications of the Put:Call ratio making a rare print over 1 (1.1…

Home Retail Group results show two speed high street

The depressing state of many parts of Britain’s high street was illustrated by a 13 percent slump in Home Retail…

Rare 1.1 print on US Equity Put:Call ratio

Data provided by CBOE website. http://www.cboe.com/data/IntraDayVol.aspx One of my favourite indicators with regards to providing a lead indicator for  a…

Weak private sector US employment data hits markets

The markets are down heavily today as the ADP (Automatic Data Processing) shows  the weakest growth in US private sector…

Spanish index making a double bottom? Both matador and bulls blood on the streets!

Spanish stocks have endured a 5% swing lower from the open this morning at just over 7100 to 6700 at…

Cable & Wireless shares offer a 15% event arbitrage opportunity

With Cable & Wireless shares now trading at a 4.5p discount to the 38p cash offer by Vodafone, the shares…

Nokia – materially undervalued. Corporate activity looking ever more likely.

At the current price of $3.73 (US list) Nokia looks to us to be a classic value purchase opportunity on…

Shareholder uprising against excesses of executive pay

Spreadbet Magazine supports wholeheartedly the growing momentum by company shareholders to the grossly excessive and disproportionate pay levels currently prevalent…

Falkland Islands oil quiet for now but plenty of action to come

After the hysteria triggered by the rumours of a gigantic oil discovery at Borders and Southern’s Darwin East well in…

Research in motion slips on smart phone data

Research in Motion’s shares are down 4.5 percent to $13.6 on a report from IDC that showed RIM’s share of the…