While credit crises have centuries of history, it is during the last 40 years in particular that we seem to have witnessed a sequence of continual boom and bust. No sooner is there the bursting of one credit bubble than a new one is inflated elsewhere… For a great many years, monetary policy has relied…
CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW TO VIEW TODAY’S VIDEO Spreadbet Magazine editor Zak Mir takes a look at the technical position of some of the bulletin board stocks of the moment amongst private investors. Here are the key points from today’s video: Alba Mineral Resources (ALBA) For Alba we see the shares supported by a massive unfilled…
FTSE 100 Next (NXT) – pre-tax profits up by 18.6% at £257.7 million in the six months to July, dividend up by 14p at 50p per share. Morrisons (MRW) – Underlying profit before tax down by 51% to £181 million in the half year to 3rd August. Dividend increased by 5% to 4.03p per share. Royal…
In the first in a new series for SBM Frederik Vanhaverbeke, author of Excess Returns: A comparative study of the methods of the world’s greatest investors, looks at how some of the world’s greatest investors are so successful. As they say, it is better to be wrong, wrong, wrong and then right than the other…
CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW TO VIEW TODAY’S VIDEO Spreadbet Magazine editor Zak Mir takes a look at the technical position of some of the bulletin board stocks of the moment amongst private investors. Here are the key points from today’s video: Blinkx (BLNX) For Blinkx we see the first sustained clearance of the 50 day…
FTSE 100 London Stock Exchange (LSE) – Since the last update on trading on 22nd August trends are broadly unchanged. Meggitt (MGGT) – Meggitt Training Systems has won additional delivery orders worth US $17.7 million to support the US Army’s Targetry Systems (ATS) programme with TACOM, the US Army Contracting Command in Warren, Michigan for…
Avation Plc (AVAP) is a commercial jet aircraft owner and leasing provider, formed in July 2006, as a spin-off from the former Advent Air Ltd (now Skywest Airlines Ltd). Avation itself initially focused on servicing Skywest but a diversification strategy, of leasing a variety of types of aircraft to a wider range of airlines, saw…
While not strictly being a pharma or biotech company (it operates within “life sciences”) Tyratech has a number of products which benefit human health. The firm is a specialist in insect and parasite control products, with its unique selling point being that it uses natural plant essential oils in order to kill parasites and pests.…
CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW TO VIEW TODAY’S VIDEO Spreadbet Magazine editor Zak Mir takes a look at the technical position of some of the bulletin board stocks of the moment amongst private investors. Here are the key points from today’s video: Nostra Terra Oil & Gas (NTOG) A sharp spike to end last week through the…
FTSE 100 Whitbread (WTB) – reports a total sales increase of 12.8% and a like for like sales increase of 6.8% for the 11 weeks to 14th August. FTSE 250 Fenner (FENR) – anticipates that results for the year ended 31st August 2014 will be in line with expectations. Galliford Try (GFRD) – has been appointed to…
