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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Recommendation Summary BG Group has gone from being a part of nationalised British Gas, to being an international oil & gas player – one that is approaching the top tier. However, it has been evident over the past couple of years that the journey has become somewhat rocky – a position not helped by the…
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…
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…
In a booming market, many of the best opportunities are to be found using a picks ‘n’ shovels investment approach – in other words, via investing in those companies that facilitate rather than produce. To a large extent, the same was true of the last bull market in the oil & gas sector. While the…
Detachment is everything in investing. And there is bucket loads of detachment here on the Limpopo. They once ascribed the mystique of the superiority of the Edinburgh fund mangers to the fact that that they were far from the London market with all its distractions and crowd following investors. Here on the Limpopo a man…
