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the concise guide to the week ahead courtesy of Cantor Index

the concise guide to the week ahead courtesy of Cantor Index

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For more interesting research & professional Technical Analysis from Cantor Index click here to register for free. Monday, October 15, 2012 UK Reporting:- Filtrona Plc, FLTR, (R), Fresnillo Plc, FRES, Mcbride Plc, MCB, (SM) S&P 500 Reporting:- Charles Schwab Corp/The, Q3, 0.168,  Citigroup Inc, Q3, 0.969,  Gannett Co Inc, Q3, 0.528 S&P 500 Ex Dividends (gross):- EOG Resources Inc, EO5,…

Greek exit now all but a certainty according to Swedish Finance Minister

Greek exit now all but a certainty according to Swedish Finance Minister

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With yet another European Union summit next week devoted to saving the euro (again), it is reported this weekend that the Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg said Greece may quit the common currency within the next six months. “It’s most probable that they will leave,” Borg said on Saturday on a conference call from Tokyo, where…

RBS in the mire again

RBS in the mire again

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News breaks after the markets have closed on Friday (always a bad sign) that the Project Rainbow deal – being the RBS sale to Santander of 20% of its branches, has collapsed. The main reasons given are that the IT infrastructure was not going to be transferred in time for February 2013 and that the…

Zak Mir’s weekend missive – Three Little Bears

Zak Mir’s weekend missive – Three Little Bears

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By the end of this week I grew a little tired of waiting for the FTSE to deliver a big splash to the upside. Indeed, the best it could do was bounce off a May uptrend line running through 5760 yesterday.  That is not to say that there may not be strong progress next week…

Lonmin and “anal”-yst price targets….

Lonmin and “anal”-yst price targets….

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We note with interest (and derision) the price target put out by SocGen in recent days on Lonmin of 145p. Yup, that’s right, 145p. Either the guy knows something we don’t, he is looking for a controversial headline or he has missed a number in front or, as one commentator opined, he’s “smoking something”. Given…

Adding to Trading Buy position In ENRC @ 332p

Adding to Trading Buy position In ENRC @ 332p

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We called a Trading Buy position on ENRC on 1 Oct @ 316p and introduced a flat stop at 316p a few days later to ensure we couldn’t lose on the trade. Here is the link explaining our Bull stance on the stock (page 25) – http://issuu.com/spreadbetmagazine/docs/spreadbet-magazine-v9_generic. With iron ore prices continuing to recover in recent…

BUMI PRICE TARGET HIT. POSITION CLOSED

BUMI PRICE TARGET HIT. POSITION CLOSED

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Bumi shares have largely hit our target of 300p just now and accordingly we close our position in full at 295p for a useful (ungeared) average 70% return in 2 days.  Take a look at our record on the About Us page – this year we have achieved over a 95% (that’s right 95%!) success…

Market news round up, upgrades & downgrades courtesy of Cantor Index

Market news round up, upgrades & downgrades courtesy of Cantor Index

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For more interesting research & professional Technical Analysis from Cantor Index click here to register for free. UK Corporate Announcements Travis Perkins reports Q3 total sales fell 2.4% in Q3 and said sales had held up well despite the poor weather and the Olympics Flybe announces that it has performed in line with the revised management forecasts Hargreaves Lansdown states…