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Reflect & Prepare

29th March 19 By: Reflect & Prepare

All the talk in the US is about the yield curve inversion, and how this may signal a recession down the line.  As it stands, the Fed has already reined in their policy stance, holding back on...

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Brexit-mania hotting up - well, it is (the old) 'exit date'!

29th March 19 By: Shant

Oh, what a tangled web we weave.  Many people, let alone investors will have been left baffled by the degree of entanglement inside parliament, in trying to find a resolution to the Brexit...

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One of the worst charts I've seen

29th March 19 By: Rajan Dhall

Tui's share price has fallen over 60% since April last year!   Things have just recently got worse for the travel company as they announced that they will make contingency plans for...

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Yield curve inversion - (no) panic over the signals

27th March 19 By: Shant

Over recent months, and heightening in the past week or so has been the flattening and eventual inversion of the US Treasury yield curve, which in the past has been a 'reliable' indicator of a...

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Fevertree back on track

27th March 19 By: Rajan Dhall

Fevertree updated the market with their latest prelim results for the period ending 31 December 2018, here are some of the highlights: Total revenue stood at £237.45 million (vs...

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When is the right time to look at Debenhams?

27th March 19 By: Rajan Dhall

I recently wrote about Debenhams on the LSE blog ( http://www.lse.co.uk/blogs/expert/rajan-dhall/w2hy8g79t5qw17a/ ) and low and behold Mike Ashley put in a bid for the Co.    ...

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Reflect & Prepare (By Rajan Dhall)

23rd March 19 By: Reflect & Prepare

The FOMC meeting was the focal point in the US this week, with all eyes on the dot plot to see whether policymakers had changed their projections for the year.  In December, Fed members...

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Europe(an growth) slipping towards recession?

22nd March 19 By: Shant

This morning's release of Euro-wide purchasing manager indices was focused on the manufacturing data out of Germany.  As the economic driving force of the Eurozone, its viability in what are...

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Fed caution restrains stock market reaction to dovish announcements

21st March 19 By: Shant

The stepdown by the Fed earlier this year went a long way to helping US stocks return to better ways after the rout seen in the last quarter of 2018.  The 20% slump in the major US indices has...

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Audioboom on the rise again

20th March 19 By: Rajan Dhall

Below is the weekly chart of LSE listed Audioboom (BOOM). The company are a podcast hosting company with more than 4000 broadcasters. It was said in the latest RNS from the company that Candy...

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The Gym Group Bounce Back

19th March 19 By: Rajan Dhall

The Gym Group's share price has fallen from highs in Sept'18 of 344p to lows seen at the beginning of this month at around 186p that's a 45% drop!   Could this represent value in the...

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Reflect & Prepare

15th March 19 By: Rajan Dhall

It has been a quiet week in the US, both in terms of political and economic news and events.  The numbers out of the US has have been relatively positive with durable goods orders net positive...

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A solid week for the FTSE - no deal is off the table (it seems)

15th March 19 By: Shant

It has been a pivotal week in the UK, with a series of votes from Tuesday to Thursday culminating in an agreement to ask for an extension to the Brexit date, which now needs to be agreed with the-...

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Cineworld benefits from the Regal acquisition - up 7%

14th March 19 By: Rajan Dhall

Decent prelim results for the cinema chain this morning:   Group Revenue +7.2% Adjusted EBITDA +9.4% Admissions of 308.4m up 2.6% Revenue on a statutory basis of $4,119.1m,...

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Brexit outcomes multiply again

13th March 19 By: Shant

The writing was on the wall once the Attorney General Geoffrey Cox revealed that the risk of being held inside the customs union in perpetuity was effectively little changed, and once the DIUP (who...

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Technical Analysis - FTSE 100 - A cloud is hanging over UK equities

13th March 19 By: Rajan Dhall

As the UK PM's Brexit deal got voted down the FTSE 100 bearly moved at the open this morning despite being called to open lower by financial bookmakers.    I have added a chart...

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Reflect & Prepare

8th March 19 By: Reflect & Prepare

Markets have been rattled this week by events in Europe, notably the ECB meeting, which along with the BoC in Canada surprised on a clear dovish note to send jitters through global stock markets -...

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ECB measures highlight fears over global (as well as Eurozone) slowdown

8th March 19 By: Shant

Stocks took an ugly turn for the worse today as the ECB meeting on Thursday surprised markets with a change in forward guidance.  Having previously stated that they will hold interest rates...

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Quiz Falls 53%!!!

7th March 19 By: Rajan Dhall

UK fashion retailer Quiz looks like it's on the brink at the moment after the issues at House of Fraser kicked off the 1st stage of worries.   In their latest update for the period...

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Favoured stocks - looking at the Buy side

7th March 19 By: David Harbage

One question that is often asked by private investors is,”Do fund managers like the stock?” In trying to answer this teaser, the writer has looked beyond what might be considered the...

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