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UK retail sector woes continue in April

The UK high street has failed to bounce back strongly in April after poor weather kept consumers at home in…

Mellon on the Markets

It’s late April in LA, it’s raining, and it’s time for the annual Milken Institute jamboree. Anthony Chow and I…

UK house prices suffer biggest monthly fall since 2010

UK house prices posted their largest monthly fall in eight years during April, according to Halifax’s House Price Index. While…

Shire and Takeda agree £46 billion takeover deal

The board of FTSE 100 drug firm Shire (LON:SHP) has recommended that shareholders accept Takeda’s takeover bid. The offer of…

The absolute return fund that is shorting Tesla

My colleague, Simon Cawkwell, writing in his Evil Diaries, recently described Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) as “surely…..the greatest short in the history of…

Is AIM still “the world’s leading growth market”?

The Alternative Investment Market – also known as “AIM” – provokes controversy in the investment community. Some see it as…

Trumpery is Working!

We always knew that Donald Trump was a badass. What we didn’t know (though the stock markets kind of knew)…

2 FTSE 100 turnaround stocks that could offer high returns

While the FTSE 100 may have gained 7% in the last month to trade within 250 points of its all-time…

The problem with growth

One of the most influential things I have ever seen is a presentation on YouTube. Its formal title is Arithmetic,…

Skin in the game

Recent research by the broker Canaccord Genuity has highlighted which boards of directors and fund managers have the most significant…