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Tuesday’s Stock Market Report featuring IAG, Antofagasta, Micro Focus International and AdEPT Telecom

Tuesday’s Stock Market Report featuring IAG, Antofagasta, Micro Focus International and AdEPT Telecom

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The Markets Activity in the UK services sector accelerated during March according to the latest PMI survey data, which suggested the sector experienced its quickest rate of expansion since August. Markit, which carries out the industrial surveys, said that results for the first three months indicated UK GDP growth of 0.7%, which would be a…

Get Ready for an Emerging Markets Crisis

Get Ready for an Emerging Markets Crisis

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Planting the Seeds The financial crisis of 2007-2009 is often seen as one of the worst ever crises faced by the US economy. The capitalisation of the S&P 500 was halved, the unemployment rate was doubled, and the Federal Reserve had to go out of bounds in rescuing the economy to avoid the collapse of…

Rystad Energy predicts US oil output will peak at 9.7 million bpd in September
Rystad does rig count to predict production

Rystad Energy predicts US oil output will peak at 9.7 million bpd in September

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By Amy McLellan Oil prices may be low and rig counts falling but Rystad Energy, the Norwegian upstream consultancy, sees no near-term slump in US oil production – but does see growth topping out in Q3. Analysts at the Oslo-based consultancy estimate US annual oil production will peak at 9.7 million barrels per day by…

Foot Soldiers in Practice

Foot Soldiers in Practice

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As my contribution to this first edition of Master Investor, I have decided to clarify some points concerning regulation of AIM. This is partly because it is not understood and partly because it is complex and unusual. AIM is a division or franchise (as the LSE likes to promote it) of the London Stock Exchange.…

Binary Corner – When the Fed Errs, it’s Time to Buy Gold

Binary Corner – When the Fed Errs, it’s Time to Buy Gold

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In the UK, the Budget took centre stage and garnered all the front page headlines, but in reality this was a mere sideshow to last month’s US FOMC statement. The US dollar plunged on the back of the statement, propelling most other currencies higher. Why? The Federal Reserve removed the word “patient” from its statement…

School Corner – Refusing to Crystallise Losses

School Corner – Refusing to Crystallise Losses

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This is the sixth in a series of educational articles on the best habits of winning traders and investors, the most common mistakes traders make and the best ways to avoid them. Today, we are looking at refusing to crystallize trading losses, the irreparable damage this can cause to your trading account (let alone to…

Alpesh Patel On The Markets

Alpesh Patel On The Markets

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Why would you invest in the FTSE 100 right now? A question that almost every trader and investor in the UK has in mind is quite simply “where’s the FTSE 100 headed a few weeks down the road?” I know this because from all the people I meet on various occasions this is the most…

Robbie Burns’ Trading Diary

Robbie Burns’ Trading Diary

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One of the best things about spread betting is the ability to cheaply trade shares you might only want to be in for a few days or even just a month or two. There isn’t much cost and you can quickly bank (hopefully) a nice profit. My favourite was to spread bet is to find…

Small Cap Oil Services Plays

Small Cap Oil Services Plays

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Sell-offs are often a great opportunity for patient investors to acquire prime assets on the cheap, and the recent sell-off in the oil & gas services sector appears to be a case in point. In this month’s small-cap section we have put together a selection of the most exciting companies in the sector, all of…