The ECB kept its key interest rate unchanged at 0.75% and announced a new bond-buying program to save the Euro. Will it work and will it be enough? Those questions remain unanswered as Mario Draghi has, yet again, ommited much of the key detail, but for now, it seems investors are placated and today they…
Traders and investors packed their luggage during August, stuffed no doubt with their notebooks (‘e’ variety!) and iPads inside, just in case things turned pear shaped again for global markets as they did last year. Traditionally being a low volatility month, August was a serious headache for investors in 2011. Luckily, this year things were…
The one and only, Mr Cyril Theret, Ex CEO Plus Markets, presider over pretty much the complete wipe out of his long suffering shareholders To say that it’s has been a difficult couple of years for investors fishing for the ultimate contrarian plays amongst the small/micro cap sector if the market is probably an understatement.…
Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO Another bad day for Nokia yesterday, with the shares dropping under €2 after the unveiling of a new range of Windows equipped Lumia phones which the company hopes will reverse its precipitous decline in the smartphone arena (down over 40% in the last quarter). With the Lumia smart phones shipping into…
For more research & Technical Analysis from Cantor Index click here to register. UK Corporate Announcements Go Ahead Group states that trading has been in line with management forecasts WM Morrison states that the challenging conditions remained, and details H1 revenues of £8.9bn and a pre-tax profit of £440m and expects the tough conditions to continue EasyJet announces 12 month…
At one second past 5 a.m. on Tuesday 1 January 2013, almost all of you will be tucked up in a warm bed, perhaps recovering from the New Year celebrations a few hours before; no doubt pleased that you won’t have to go to work when you wake up, this being a Bank Holiday. While…
Investors are now preparing for tomorrow’s ECB meeting with elevated expectations about what Mario Draghi has in his bag of tricks. The Euro has been rising against most crossed since the last ECB meeting held on August 2 and many commentators believe tomorrow’s meeting will make history with confirmation of ECB bond buying and so…
We asked yesterday what Mr Schmuckerberg’s next move was and opined that the emperor had no clothes… Well Mr Z answered loudly with an SEC filing in which he said he would not be selling any stock for at least another year. The stock rebounded from an all-time low of $17.55 on this news to trade up…
The chart below displays rather more succintly than words can just how powerful has been the Great Bond Bull market over the last 30 years. We believe that the fundamentals are now stacked up high against the bonds over the medium to longer term as detailed in our piece in the last edition of…
