It’s certainly a tug of war for equity investors right now. Some strong corporate earnings from the U.S. from the likes of Home Depot and Cisco together with continued loose monetary policy (low interest rates and quantitative easing) are going head to head with some of the big issues looming over the world economy at…
For newer entrants to the trading arena, many of you will probably have never heard of the infamous Peter Young who was a star fund manager at Morgan Grenfell in the early 1990’s. Problem was his performance was pretty much all fabricated through creating bogus trades and prices of unquoted investments in the fund –…
Fresh from my appearance on CNBC the other week, I was invited to go on Bloomberg on Tuesday morning at 6:40 AM. Unfortunately, due to the location of my abode, this meant the taxi picking me up at 5 AM! A somewhat painful experience for someone who is not really a morning person…However, once I…
With Lonmin shares rising over 6% on Monday and Bloomberg reporting, citing 2 seperate sources, that Xstrata are considering making a renewed offer for Lonmin, it is noteworthy that the shares are up again today against a flat market and in rising volume. With continued comments from the current Lonmin management urging shareholders to vote…
The downward trend still looks to be intact and even the charts have lots of negativity about them with some of the key moving averages starting to indicate some ominous bearish signals. The FTSE has bounced twice off its daily 200 day moving average around the 5720 level which was visited yesterday and last Friday…
We have EMED Mining as a Trading Buy, the position being entered at 9p on the 24 Aug. The stock has been covered extensively in our magazine and on the blog (tabs to the right) with the most recent commentary from our contributor Zak Mir who suggested the stock might be ripe for a squeeze…
In February 1990, when Jimmy Carter was US president, the financial world was shaken to its very foundations. The cause? The failure of the Democrats and Republicans to sort out the economic problems of their nation. Ring any bells? Once again, the two parties are at loggerheads; this time over how to avert plunging over the the…
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Can and will history repeat itself again? If the Fiscal cliff is ridden over then yes, if we avoid it then this chart is consigned to the bin….. Our money’s literally on the latter.
Questions for Mr David Pummell (CEO, supposedly) of Ceres Power as the buyer returns to Ceres – 1. Almost 16% of your company has changed hands over the past 10 days – where is the RNS holding movement announcement? 2. When do you deem it fit to update your shareholders about the progress on the…
