The surprise result of the EU referendum sent shockwaves through the financial markets and created a huge amount of volatility. You would normally expect a diversified fund to be relatively immune to this sort of turbulence, but there have been some huge price swings with double digit gains and losses in some of the most…
I am not sure whether the two Purplebricks “experts” on the home page of its website necessarily sell the concept or the company to me, but it is probably the case that in a buoyant housing market this does not really matter. What may matter more is whether the share price rebounds from the present…
A few weeks ago I bought a pair of glasses at Poundland (for £1, of course), but would have been better off not going to Specsavers and buying the shares as the company received a takeover approach. In the case of William Hill, taking a punt on the share price looks to be a better…
Scotgold Resources (LON:SGZ) When I wrote up Scotgold back in November, it was to highlight how constant share dilution is ‘hidden’ from investors in the only charts available to them – i.e. the share price. When a company’s fundamentals haven’t changed, it’s the market cap that indicates whether or not its value per share has…
Following my article last month on Covered Call Writing we had a request from a reader to recommend some brokers that offer the services required. I wouldn’t claim to have an in depth knowledge of all the companies in the market place, but I can simply say which companies I use myself. Of course there…
Income investors who rely to a large extent on the money generated from their portfolio would want to achieve a regular stream of receipts that they could use to meet their normal outgoings. The easiest way to do this would be to invest in funds that pay a monthly income. A good example is Premier…
The housing market remains the big dinner party subject of choice, with the general conclusion being that it is a market which is a “one way bet”. However, stocks related to this market, such as estate agent Countrywide, have a rather more complex technical set up. Countrywide (LON:CWD): Above 220p Could Lead Back Towards 300p…
Rio at 2,458p (last seen) has a lot of room for a share price pull back. Finding cash for investment and dividends must be a struggle. Rio Tinto (LON:RIO), the largely iron ore and copper mining stock, may be in the process of a long recovery but it nevertheless has scope for a big, within trend, downward…
Just like getting back with an ex-partner, there are number of risks involved in investing in companies which have previously gone bust and come back to the market in a different, but recognisable, guise. Take Game Group for example. The computer games retailer was a stock market darling as recently as 2008, as it benefited…
As it happens I sold my family’s Baillie Gifford Shin (BGS), a Japanese equities investment trust, about four weeks ago. I have heard it claimed that the trend of dividends in Japan is so strong that Japanese equities will not go down. But in what currency will they be paid? The following clip (40 minutes,…
