The latest news regarding Imagination Technologies (LON:IMG) really has been something of a shocker, with the company taking quite a hit from Apple’s decision to walk. Although it has to be admitted Imagination Technologies seems to have the air of a binary bet in the wake of Apple – its main customer heading for the…
Back in 1998, the author Michael Lewis, then a columnist for Bloomberg, wrote as follows: “When historians of everyday life look back on 20th-century American capitalism they will be astonished by the role played by our stockbrokers. Certainly, it will be hard for them to explain to their readers the willingness of a prosperous American…
One of the advantages of using investment trusts is that if you get the timing right you can benefit from the strong performance of the underlying assets and a narrowing of the discount. These sorts of opportunities don’t come along every day, but long-term investors might find that the India Capital Growth (LON:IGC) fund turns…
It might be said by fans of small caps that in terms of the investor relations aspect of Asiamet Resources (LON:ARS), we have seen a perfect performance. That is, perhaps, apart from the name change. Perhaps the only blemish on the recent history of Asiamet Resources is when the copper-gold explorer changed its name from…
Financial markets have been on an impressive run since Donald Trump was elected in November. The S&P 500 is up 10.7%, the Dow is up 13.1% and the MSCI World (which is a proxy for developed markets) is up 9.9%. Trump’s promises in terms of tax cuts, infrastructure spending, protectionism for US industries, repeal of…
Further analysis: readers will recall that last week the question of the analysis of the £60bn claimed by the EU from us arose since it was clear that nobody seemed to know the answer. This morning we get fresh data. For it transpires that Iain Duncan Smith, who, admittedly, is on our side, declares that…
It would appear that after the latest news from Safestay (LON:SSTY) we can say that the company is a fan of good housekeeping. Although I like to think I have an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of most companies on the stock market, alas this is not quite the case. That said, the clue is in the…
Long term savers get tax deduction when setting aside sums in a pension fund. HMG is determined that the saver cannot have his money without paying tax on withdrawals. So far so good. But the funds have to be handled by a pensioner trustee. In my case it is Curtis Banks Limited and the funds…
As a dividend-focused investor I’m always on the lookout for high yield shares, whether that yield is high relative to the market average or high relative to the company’s peers. However, as most yield-seeking investors soon discover, high yield stocks do not always deliver the yield you were hoping for. That’s because dividends can be…
There is not too much historical data to go by on the daily chart of Convatec (LON:CTEC), but enough for early bird chartists to make a decent call on a possible extended rally. There are very few stocks that I have not heard of, with the usual explanation being that they are either new to…
