By Zak Mir. While the world waits to see whether or not U.S. government departments will shutdown, it is perhaps a better idea to look at what really matters in life. And what could matter more than the current share price of Gulf Keystone (GKP)?! GKP is a stock, where use of the conditional tense…
By Filipe R. Costa During the last five years, all it seems we have read about are austerity measures, fiscal consolidation, expense cuts, increasing taxes, international creditors and debt covenants. The European Sovereign Debt crisis certainly brought this issue to the fore since 2010, as Greece, Portugal and Ireland received the first, of what would…
When I first started to look at the stock market several decades ago, my primary analysis was based on the market fundamentals and how well companies were doing. Now it seems like it’s all about the Federal Reserve, and government debates on the debt ceiling and where to cut and find money to balance the…
Risers: Barratt Developments, up 2.2% Barratt Developments raised to overweight from neutral by JPMorgan Cazenove. The majority of UK house builders traded higher this morning after prime minister David Cameron’s announcement that the second part of the government’s “Help to Buy” scheme will launch next week. Shares in Barratt rallied the most in early trading…
By Investment Contrarians Two lines from the song “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield pretty much sum up what we are seeing on the key stock indices here in the U.S. economy: “There’s somethin’ happenin’ here/What it is ain’t exactly clear.” There is too much noise out there: some are saying key stock indices…
Equity investors find themselves attacked on more than one front this morning, with the U.S. budget, Italian politics and China being reason enough for an early run to the exit. Shares across Europe are set to open significantly lower in light of the developing news flow. While this combination of news flow is concerning, the…
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Bank of England Governor Mark Carney caused a strengthening of the pound this morning after investors latched onto his comments to the Yorkshire Post. Governor Carney spoke out against the prospect of further quantitative easing citing the recent strengthening of the recovery and the positive economic signals as the reason. The UK markets witnessed a…
By Ben Turney. The threat of inflation is a regular theme here at Spreadbet Magazine. We are deeply concerned about the long term implications of the excessive easy money policies of the major central banks, since 2008. In the absence of clearly defined exit strategies, the likelihood is that once this money starts seeping out…
