Morning Shot
30th August 17
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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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 ...
Read More25th August 17
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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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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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...
Read More24th August 17
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...
Read More24th August 17
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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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...
Read More23rd August 17
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...
Read More22nd August 17
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 ...
Read More21st August 17
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...
Read More18th August 17
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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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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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...
Read More16th August 17
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 ...
Read More16th August 17
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...
Read More15th August 17
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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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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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 ...
Read More11th August 17
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...
Read More11th August 17
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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