As seen in the latest issue of Master Investor Magazine At 14:46 on Friday 11th March 2011, the Tohuku earthquake – now sometimes referred to as the Great East Japan earthquake – struck off the east coast of Japan. At a magnitude of 9.0 (Mw) it was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to have…
FTSE 350 Cairn Energy (LON: CNE): Gap Towards 220p Plus What is evident on the daily chart of Cairn Energy is the way the run up to the main 2016 rally was flagged early in the year. January served up a vertical push through the 50 day moving average then towards 140p, with March delivering…
One of the most obvious effects of the Brexit vote was the way many UK facing companies found their share prices slammed upon fears of a recession – or at least the uncertainty as to how the economy would cope to life outside the European Union. One month later and it is starting to look…
Dame Lowell Goddard‘s resignation is in a sense mildly comic. The first two birds, Butler-Sloss and Woolf, were compelled to leave since the leaders of the allegedly abused insisted B-S and W were not impartial since they had had past associations of a very limited nature with those who could potentially be accused or interviewed…
I remember a joke from the ‘80s that went along the lines of: “Why don’t pixies get pregnant? Because they only go to goblin parties.” I mention that now as there is going to be a goblin coffee shop in Paddington. The Fellatio Café will open in Praed St it seems, and will be using…
Next (LON:NXT) at 5,250p, after the second-quarter trading statement, looks lowly rated, both absolutely and historically, and provides an excellent vehicle to ride the sentiment effect of a Gordon Brown-like stimulation of the economy – successfully achieved in 2010 when the UK economy began growing again despite the alarming impact of a world banking crisis. There are…
Inmarsat, the mobile satellite services group, seems to be rather less space age at the moment than one might have expected on the fundamental front. But at least from a technical perspective it would appear the stock is ready to head to the upper reaches of the stratosphere. Inmarsat (LON:ISAT): Robust Chart Setup Ironically, it…
The greatest technological leap forward for humanity in the second quarter of the 21st Century will be Quantum Computing (QC). It will accelerate computer processing speeds beyond our imagination. It’s a weird world; and yet the first QC inspired computers are already working on problems of mind-boggling complexity. Quantum Theory was formulated in Europe in…
Rather infuriatingly for bears of the banking sector, it would appear that good news is great news (in share price terms) and bad news is good news. So being short of the key protagonists is a difficult affair. This has been illustrated in the wake of the latest update from HSBC. HSBC Holdings (HSBA): Key…
So here we are again at a junction where policymakers have only two choices: one leads to a merry-go-round that ends and starts at the exact same point; the other leads to a dead-end, forcing a return to the departure point. This has been the choice faced by policymakers over the last few years and…
