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Morning Shot

30th August 17 By: Morning Shot

World indices suffered a blow yesterday as North Korea escalated geopolitical tensions, althouth by the end of the session US indices managed to recover finished in the black. Asia has followed ...

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An insistent drumbeat of increasing intensity

25th August 17 By: Eric Chalker

A serious investor cannot ignore the seemingly inexorable drumbeat of reasons to be concerned about the increasing riskiness of current share prices.   Some will say carry on regardless, be...

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Macro, Markets, and Companies

25th August 17 By: Reflect & Prepare

This week has been pretty crazy for a summer one! Dixons and Provident Financial capitulated and Jackson Hole took centre stage. Lets start with the macro stuff... There was a stream of rumors sug...

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Jackson Hole impacting the Markets

25th August 17 By: Morning Shot

Asian shares didn't really take the lead from the US overnight as the US indices traded slightly lower and, with the exception of the ASX, the main Asian bourses trade in the black. It is all still v...

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Dixons Carphone - The chart says it all!

24th August 17 By: Rajan Dhall

So I have been insisting the impact that FX could have on companies since brexit, and now the falling GBP has its first major victim. Dixons Carphone this morning issued a warning and share...

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When fear abounds.....

24th August 17 By: David Harbage

In the month of August to date, international news bulletins have been dominated by escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States of America. The prospect of nuclear missiles being di...

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Morning Shot

24th August 17 By: Morning Shot

Major equity markets both in Asia and the US closed lower this morning and last night as fresh concerns regarding Trumps abilities to enact tax reforms emerged. The ASX was the only major index in po...

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Morning Shot

23rd August 17 By: Morning Shot

Asian indices took the positive sentiment from the US overnight, apart from the ASX which is lower by 0.22% this morning. We did see a blip in the markets when Donald Trump apparently suggested he wo...

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Morning Shot

22nd August 17 By: Morning Shot

Slow day in equities yesterday, the US indices trading almost flat and in Asia the Nikkei was unchanged and ASX finished 0.42% higher.  In commodities markets price action was also ...

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Morning Shot

21st August 17 By: Morning Shot

Markets in Asia traded mixed overnight with the Nikkei and ASX subdued and the Chinese bourses all trading higher. There has been some press reports that tensions between North and South Korea had ri...

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Reflect & Prepare

18th August 17 By: Reflect & Prepare

The tragic events once again overshadowed economics this week, the attack in Spain left equity markets slightly shell shocked yesterday along with some hokey cokey US politics. My FTSE 100 ...

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Morning Shot

18th August 17 By: Morning Shot

The main US indices all closed lower yesterday by an average of 1.5% and the Asian bourses followed suit. Stocks fell initially as some fake twitter reports surfaced that Gary Cohn had resigned from ...

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Morning Shot

17th August 17 By: Morning Shot

The three main US bourses closed in the black yesterday up an average of 0.10%. Asian equity markets are mixed with the Shanghai Comp. currently up 0.44% and the ASX and Nikkei down roughly 0.10%. Ja...

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Emerging Market equity - a 'look under the bonnet'

16th August 17 By: David Harbage

By contrast with UK banks, BGEO has a much cleaner, more understandable balance sheet. This FTSE350 index constituent is a pure play on the Georgian economy - which is performing strongly - as it is ...

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Morning Shot

16th August 17 By: Morning Shot

US bourses closed mixed yesterday with only the Dow finishing higher by around 0.02%. In Asia, it was a similar story with the ASX trading higher by half a percent and the Nikkei down 0.10%, all in a...

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Taking a closer look at today's news

15th August 17 By: David Harbage

In last week’s article, we took a look at three company updates: encouraging ones from the two medium sized stocks this blog highlighted at the beginning of the year, tempered by a startling an...

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Morning Shot

15th August 17 By: Morning Shot

Yesterday in the US major indices rose by an average of 1%, while in Asia over night sentiment was good but they could not match the gains to the same extent. Global sentiment was mainly lifted ...

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Morning Shot

14th August 17 By: Morning Shot

Asian equity markets traded positively on the first trading day of the week and this has happened despite retail sales and industrial production coming in worse than expected in China. Some analysts ...

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Reflect & Prepare

11th August 17 By: Reflect & Prepare

This week geopolitical news has been the main driver in the markets, North Korea have threatened to attack the US island of Guam where many US soldiers are based and Donald Trump decided to reta...

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Challenging conventional wisdom

11th August 17 By: Eric Chalker

How many different shares should one hold?  By a nice coincidence, two seemingly conflicting articles recently appeared within the space of three days.  First, Investors Chronicle told read...

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