In December the Board of Alliance Trust (LON:ATST) announced plans to change its investment approach by appointing eight specialist equity managers with proven stock-picking skills. The new mandate is designed to improve the performance and is subject to a shareholder vote on 28th February. If the plans are approved the £3.1bn fund will give investors…
It can be said with a certain amount of regret that shares of W Resources has not exactly joined the mining sector party. Perhaps now at the start of 2017 the company’s time has finally come? The Iberia focused mining group appears to have talked the talk and walked the walk – to borrow an horrific…
Last night BooHoo (LON:BOO) was criticised on Channel 4 for paying in effect less than the minimum wage to get its garments run up. This has had no effect upon the share price. I doubt if the market is being sensible. In any event, the share price at 141p is far too high. ***** At…
Since the inauguration of Donald Trump on Friday, market conditions have become increasingly volatile. The FTSE 100 has fallen by as much as 70 points since then, bringing its total decline for the last six trading sessions to 170 points (2.3%). This decline may or may not continue, but in any case it seems likely…
As we say goodbye to 2016 it’s time for my annual review of how the UK small cap markets have performed, and for a few investment ideas for 2017. In general, small caps had a good year in 2016, with the FTSE AIM All Share gaining an impressive 14.2%. The FTSE Small Cap Index was…
I have had a long standing technical target of 1.1p on Red Rock Resources (LON:RRR). The latest newsflow makes this appear all the more realistic near term. Having fully nailed down the name of the Executive Chairman of Red Rock Resources really seems to have helped out on the technical analysis of the stock for…
My initial recommendation for Solomon Gold (LON:SOLG) last March was based on a value of gold and copper ‘in the ground’ that its drilling was then targeting on just one part of its Ecuadorian Cascabel project, which looked – even at a conservative 1% – to be at least six times Solomon’s then market cap.…
The last two months and a half have been extremely positive for equities, for the U.S. dollar, for commodities, and for inflation and growth. In the time of Great Deception, people have become hopeless and willing to blindly follow whoever offers them something different. To that extent, Donald Trump has embodied that role and revived…
It has been quite a journey for shareholders of Amur Minerals (LON:AMC). But it would finally appear that the fundamental and technical positions are starting to be revealed in positive fashion. Although Amur Minerals is sitting on a world class asset in Kun-Manie, it may be the logistics and the financials at its East Russia…
Coral must be completely mad – at least on the facts disclosed in today’s Racing Post. A Mr Albert Kinloch, 74, of Glasgow put £100 on Glasgow Rangers being relegated in 2012 at 2,500/1. This occurred since Rangers hit financial difficulties. Any fool, even Nigel Molesworth, knows this rule. Mr Kinloch is queueing to collect.…
