The slowdown in China has had a big impact on many of the world’s emerging economies. This has undermined local share prices, with the MSCI Emerging Markets index falling 2% in both 2013 and 2014, with a further 4% decline in the first seven months of this year. Despite the recent poor performance most investors…
The company is reducing costs and buying back shares; they have maintained the interim dividend and are looking for a better second half. The shares strike me as being dramatically oversold and a screaming buy even if the share price chart looks weak. I think we have heard a bell ring. We have now had…
– The FTSE 100 closed the day at 6,408.72, a decrease of 117.57 points. – The FTSE 250 fell by 202.57 points to finish at 17,414.37. – The FTSE All Share dropped by 58.96 points to 3,517.36. – The FTSE AIM All Share finished at 748.03, a fall of 3.15 points. Drug manufacturer Hikma Pharmaceuticals…
As seen in this month’s issue of Master Investor Magazine. In the first of a new series on the small cap markets Richard Gill, CFA analyses three recent additions to AIM, all of which are looking to grow in fragmented retail markets. FISHING REPUBLIC Joining AIM in June and raising £1.5 million, Fishing Republic is…
That was a joke we used to say on the phone. “Get off the line, there’s a train coming!” For us as school kids it ranked up there with shouting to cyclists “your back wheel’s going round” and that thing where you stuff your tongue behind your bottom lip while making an unintelligible sound when…
Mom & Pop’s Falling Out Atrum Coal has been the standout success story in the coal market in recent years. Arguably, it has been the only success story. The tiny Australian company listed in 2012, but it has since drilled-out a multi-billion tonne deposit in British Columbia, scooped-up assets as others have fled the sector…
– The FTSE 100 closed the day at 6,539.68, a decrease of 10.62 points. – The FTSE 250 rose by 15.01 points to finish at 17,623.9. – The FTSE All Share dropped by 4.15 points to 3,576.32. – The FTSE AIM All Share finished at 751.13, an increase of 0.3 points. UK CPI Inflation rose…
As seen in this month’s issue of Master Investor Magazine. This is the eighth in the series of my educational articles, all of which are focussed on the best habits of winning traders and investors, the most common mistakes traders make and the best ways to avoid them. Is trading and investing during the summer…
The Risk-Reward World Investment is all about risk and return. Risk-averse investors want to maximise return for incurring a given level of risk or, put another way, minimise risk incurred for a given level of return. Everything gravitates around the risk-return trade-off, and professional investors and academics have devised ways of measuring this trade-off to…
Shares in AuRico Metals are flying, up nearly 50 per cent in three weeks on heavy trading volume, since Master Investor exclusively broke the news that the company is a takeover target. At the end of last month, we reported that Vancouver-based Sandstorm Gold was circling AuRico’s assets, including a portfolio of cash-flowing gold royalties…
