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DFS

4th October 18 By: Rajan Dhall

This morning sofa maker DFS reported its preliminary results for the 52 weeks ended 28 July 2018. Here are the highlights from the report:   ·     Group revenue including ...

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Amerisur Resources, Echo Energy, Range Resources

3rd October 18 By: Malcy

Amerisur has announced this morning that the Pintadillo-1 discovery well is ahead of expectations and will pay back in ‘under a year ‘. The T sand interval has flow tested under natural f...

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Concentration of exposure and current levels another warning sign?

3rd October 18 By: Shant

Among some of the respected fund and money managers in the spot light is a growing fear that with equity markets and valuations at extended levels, exposure in the latest derivatives craze - ETFs - m...

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Oil price, RockRose, Sound Energy

2nd October 18 By: Malcy

I am away for a few days but can’t avoid seeing the oil price continuing to strengthen, as I write WTI is$75.50 and Brent just shy of $85. The same reasons apply as before but in an increasingl...

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Revolution Bars

2nd October 18 By: Rajan Dhall

Today we received the latest prelim report from Revolution Bars I have mixed feelings about the forward guidance and like for like performance statistics. The Co. state ''Pre-booked Christmas sales u...

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Who left their Swimsuit at Home?

1st October 18 By: Ranjeet Singh

Many years before I began trading in equities and funds I was a currency trader. In fact, one of the main reasons that I stopped was because when I first started trading foreign exchange we had the F...

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Reflect and Prepare

28th September 18 By: Reflect & Prepare

The FOMC met this week to deliver its latest assessment on the economy, accompanied by a widely anticipated 25bp rate hike which takes the Fed Funds rate up to 2.25%.     Looking beyo...

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easyJet looking up to the skies as guidance increases

28th September 18 By: Rajan Dhall

This morning easyJet has provided us with a trading update for the 4th quarter. Here are the highlights:   Full Year Headline profit before tax expectation of £570m to £580m ...

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Brexit: Drifting aimlessly towards a 'sort-of' deal - that will do

27th September 18 By: Shant

towards a smooth exit, we seem to have established an acceptance of the risks ahead - not too dissimilar to the apathy in some of the developed markets towards potential trade disruptions from the se...

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Solo Oil

27th September 18 By: Rajan Dhall

Solo Oil this morning released their Unaudited Interim Results for the six months ended 30 June 2018. The company continues to state the balance sheet is in good shape, they are in a transformat...

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Boohoo - Revenue up 50% and Guidance increased

26th September 18 By: Rajan Dhall

This morning online fashion retailer Boohoo posted their latest set of results. Here are some of the main highlights:   ·     Revenue £395.3 million, up 50%  ...

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What's occurring - my 'fun' exploration stock has gone quiet?

26th September 18 By: David Harbage

Many private clients are attracted to oil, gas or mining companies whose exploration efforts could lead to their transformation - potentially resulting in a many-fold upward move in their share price...

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Fed policy announcement to give fresh direction across the board

25th September 18 By: Shant

It has been a common cry - or complaint - lately that the markets are all moving in one direction in recent months.  Everything is skewed towards US assets, including more specifically, the Doll...

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CMC Markets

25th September 18 By: Rajan Dhall

CMC markets are one of the worlds leading spread betting providers and this morning released their latest trading update covering the period from 1 July 2018 to 25 September 2018. Key State...

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African Oil and Gas

24th September 18 By: Rajan Dhall

African Oil and Gas investors have been through a rollercoaster of emotions recently. A few weeks ago it had emerged one of the rigs at the Tilapia field in the Republic of the Congo had been da...

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Algorithm Trading is no Oil Painting

24th September 18 By: Ranjeet Singh

If you have been paying close attention to the stock market recently you may have seen a strange phenomenon that you couldn’t quite put your finger on. The reason that maybe you can’t put...

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Reflect & Prepare

21st September 18 By: Reflect & Prepare

In a week where there have been few notable data releases, market participants have been watching the headlines for any fresh developments on the trade tensions between the US and China - primarily. ...

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UK economy holding its own. BoE hawks quietly confident, but as ever, proceed with caution.

21st September 18 By: Shant

It has been a good week for the UK in terms of the economic developments, with retail sales painting a healthier picture given the breadth of uncertainty over Brexit.  Higher inflation levels ar...

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Ascent Resources

20th September 18 By: Rajan Dhall

Ascent Resources hit the market this morning with a very brief update, at first glance there is not too much to get excited about, here are the highlight:   ·      Re...

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Is it time to reassess the correlations?

19th September 18 By: Shant

As ever we continue to watch the inter-asset relationships in order to get an idea of what the main drivers in the market are and whether they are undergoing - or starting to undergo a change in some...

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