By Zak Mir. Renewed tapering fears have hit leading indices, just when most traders might have thought that we were in the run up to a decent end of year rally. Interestingly enough, the FTSE 100 was something of a leading indicator as far as the latest decline for U.S. equities as it did…
By Dominic Picarda. As I pointed out on Monday, early December is actually not always such a great time for equities. Traders tend to group it together with the festive frolics that customarily occur later in the month, but this is plainly misleading. The selling that came yesterday was a reminder of this tendency towards…
Gold bulls are getting massacred. The market euphoria that has gripped the main boards and taken hold of the “all is well, bravo the Fed!” crowd has a nasty sting for any pragmatist who knows that a debt crisis cannot be solved by yet more debt. That the latter group will almost certainly be proven…
One of the men that won the Nobel Prize for economics this year says that “bubbles look like this” and that he is “most worried about the boom in the U.S. stock market.” But you don’t have to be a Nobel Prize winner to see what is happening. It should be glaringly apparent to anyone with…
Below is the intro taken from this months edition of our magazine. So, current consensus wisdom is that the stock market is overvalued but that it has further to go in the near term due to seasonal effects, too much scepticism (a contrarian signal), outstanding short interest, low VIX measure etc etc… in fact, pretty…
By Zak Mir. For some strange reason I have a soft spot for the shares of the smaller oil and gas plays. There is rarely a dull moment with these stocks and the wild swings can be extremely invigorating. I love the intrigue and speculation that can go hand in hand with trading at this…
Speculating on AIM can be one hell of an emotional experience and, more often than not, leads to a great deal of wailing and gnashing of teeth. Try and enter into a reasoned debate on a bulletin board about anything to do with corporate risks of a particular company and, almost invariably, you get rounded…
By Filipe R. Costa Since the advent of Bitcoin, numerous other “alternative” electronic currencies have sprung up, such as Litecoin, Peercoin and Namecoin. Responding to market demand, these new introductions to the world of global exchange are a direct challenge to the hegemony of governments and banks in the control of money. Modern money…
Risers: SSE +0.23%, Centrica +0.2% The U.K’s biggest energy providers will cut customers’ gas and electricity prices to reflect regulatory changes, announced by the Government on Monday. The government has confirmed that all UK major energy suppliers will pass on the savings to their customers. Free home insulation to low-income households will be slowed down…
