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Morning Shot

27th April 18 By: Morning Shot

US equities closed positive yesterday but the big story came from Amazon who beat on all metrics in their latest earnings report. The positivity filtered through to the Asia Pac area with the Nikkei ...

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Morning Shot

26th April 18 By: Morning Shot

US bourses traded mixed yesterday, the tech heavy Nasdaq closed 0.05% lower and the S&P and Dow closed up an average 0.20% higher. In the Asia Pac area it was much of the same, in Japan the Nikke...

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Why Debt is no longer a dirty word

25th April 18 By: Ranjeet Singh

Debt is one of those dirty words that people don’t seem to like to talk about, especially in my household when I was growing up. That’s because being part of that first generation of chil...

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It is time to audit the Auditors

25th April 18 By: Ranjeet Singh

It’s difficult enough to make money in the stock market without being fed false information. I mean, before you buy a share you probably look at the company’s balance sheet, the profit...

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Insulting behaviour at Interserve plc

25th April 18 By: Eric Chalker

 Some boards of directors reach out to their private investors.  Others demonstrate contempt.  The latest shocking example of the latter coming to my notice is the board of Interserve ...

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Morning Shot

25th April 18 By: Morning Shot

In the US equities sold off about a 1/3 through the session and closed lower by an average of 1.55%. In the Asia Pac area equities traded in a mixed fashion with the Nikkei (-0.24%) and Shanghai Comp...

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Morning Shot

24th April 18 By: Morning Shot

After a positive start US equities sold off late in the session, tech heavy Nasdaq was the worst performer down 0.25%. No such problems in the Asia Pac area as the Nikkei 225 traded nearly 1% higher,...

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Searching for new opportunities

23rd April 18 By: David Harbage

From time to time this writer is asked to review new businesses in search of potential corporate stars of the future. Understandably, the majority of these are technology-biased, which is logical giv...

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Morning Shot

23rd April 18 By: Morning Shot

Equities in the Asia Pac area traded mixed on the first session of the week with the ASX in Australia trading higher by 0.29%. The Nikkei 225 lost 0.27%, Shanghai Comp. -0.64%, also of note in fixed ...

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Reflect and Prepare

20th April 18 By: Reflect & Prepare

There was plenty of data out in the UK, and all of which has made the market think a little on the prospective rate hike the MPC is deliver in May.  Market odds are still around 80% for a 25bp m...

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Morning Shot

20th April 18 By: Morning Shot

US equities finished lower yesterday with the Nasdaq  worst off down 0.78%. The Asia Pac area didn't fair any better as the Nikkei fell 0.09%, ASX 0.21% and the Shanghai Comp. underperforme...

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3 Tips to being a successful Entrepreneur

19th April 18 By: Ranjeet Singh

I have never really regarded myself as being a particularly talented businessman or entrepreneur. To the contrary, I see myself as average at best. I don’t know whether that is because I am alw...

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Morning Shot

19th April 18 By: Morning Shot

Equities in the US finished off mixed, the Dow was down 0.16%, S&P 0.08% and Nasdaq 0.19%. No such problems in the Asia Pac area where the Nikkei gained 0.20%, ASX 0.33% and Shanghai Comp. 0...

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Focus on your losses, not your profits.

18th April 18 By: Ranjeet Singh

Everybody wants to make money in the stock market but it’s all too easy to get distracted from how to do that. In fact, over the years the distraction has become so strong that I feel that most...

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Morning Shot

18th April 18 By: Morning Shot

Good session on Wall St. yesterday with the Nasdaq outperforming up 1.74%. The Asia Pac area followed suit as the Nikkei gaind 1.47%, ASX 0.34% and the Shanghai Comp. 0.69%. Interestingly overnight t...

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The Triple S 'Share Spike Strategy'

17th April 18 By: Ranjeet Singh

For today’s article I thought that it was about time to start to giving my two avid followers some real, tangible value. That’s not to say that I don’t think that you receive great ...

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Morning Shot

17th April 18 By: Morning Shot

The US markets moved back to winning ways on the first session of the week up an average of 0.75%. While the ASX and Nikkei region traded flat, this came as Chinese GDP data came in as expected ...

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Europe looks cheap to me

16th April 18 By: Ranjeet Singh

Despite the fact that I believe that the market could suffer a crash either this year or next. that is not to say that I am not investing or that you shouldn’t either. After all investing in th...

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Voodoo Magic is here to stay

16th April 18 By: Ranjeet Singh

Although I barely look a day over 70, it might surprise you to know that I have been in the investment world for about 25 years. At the start of that journey I was fortunate to work at some of the ma...

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Dividends are King

16th April 18 By: Ranjeet Singh

Show me a man who says doesn’t like some passive income and I will show you a liar. Everybody loves easy, free money and passive income is exactly that. It’s the money that you make sitti...

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