Happy New Year! As if 2016 wasn’t tumultuous enough, 2017 promises to hold many more surprises. Here’s a selection of our best ideas from some of our favourite commentators… Alphabet Inc. (Google) – Victor Hill During 2016 I wrote more about Alphabet/Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) than any other company. Reading around, I came to understand that Google…
My family has gathered on the Isle of Man for the holiday period, and a jolly time we have had. The one unpredictable and notorious feature of this beautiful island is the “four seasons in one day” phenomenon, which means we go from lashing rain to bright clear skies in literally a matter of minutes.…
It should be admitted that the Rockhopper Exploration (LON:RKH) journey has not exactly been a quick or easy one for its fans. However, at least from a charting perspective it may be that going into 2017 we are looking at a recovery situation. Given that cash is supposed to be king in a number of…
Preparing for higher inflation and interest rates After so many years of extreme monetary policy, of public and private deleveraging, of very low (to negative) interest rates and yields, and of slow economic growth and subdued inflation, the world is changing at the hand of Donald Trump. Investors are already preparing for different times, by…
If you ever wondered what that Christmas song really means, look no further. It’s the moment to look back over the momentous year gone by and to prepare for the even more tumultuous one about to dawn. Some amuses bouches for hungry investors, accompanied by a glass of effervescent speculation. A partridge in a pear-shaped…
Stanley Gibbons (LON:SGI) was founded in 1856, but it would appear that the troubles at the stamp collecting group in the recent past have been worthy of a Dickensian novel. In a documentary about the eponymous founder of the company, it was revealed that he became a womaniser some years after setting up shop. It…
With 2016 almost behind us and the Christmas holidays just around the corner, there will soon be plenty of time to spend with family but also to re-think your investment portfolio. It’s time to take stock of your profits and losses and carefully consider good opportunities to kick off 2017. Here are a few DYOR…
MP Evans (LON:MPE) surprises me. It was always known that KLK would fail at the first acceptances stage with their 740p bid where the major shareholders (55%) had in mind perhaps 840p. So when the failure was announced and KLK said that its offer would lapse, one might have expected the price to settle at…
There are plenty of financial forecasts knocking around at this time of year, but the most entertaining are the 10 deliberately outrageous predictions from Saxo Bank. These are intended to flag up the outlier events with the most potential to move the markets. You can read them all here. The one that caught my eye…
One of the New Year resolutions I am going for is to look for reversals in stocks and markets as early as possible. This is especially pertinent in the context of Cloudbuy (LON:CBUY). On a fundamental basis I have the slight issue that I am not entirely convinced of what the company does, or whether…
