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The world economy is running on monetary fumes
On Friday during an interview on Wharton Business Radio, St. Louis Fed president James Bullard, who has recently moved from the Fed's biggest hawk to one of its more vocal doves, said that he sees just one rate interest in the next few years. He also confirmed that the Fed will never hike rates at a time when even one recent economic data point has printed negative, saying "the right time to move rates is after good economic news." More troubling?
- By David Scott |
- 15 August 2016, 03:48 |
A broker warns you why International Consolidated (British Airways) is a sell
Sometimes the best investment calls are made not by looking at spreadsheets but from actually kicking the tyres. Hence I bring you a note in this morning from a broker on International Consolidated (IAG). Over to the broker:
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 15 August 2016, 03:43 |
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: F is for Fecking Overvalued, Fastjet, FastForward & Fail
I start with a couple of landmarks reached today. Six months without a fag and four weeks to the due date for the birth of a son. Then a guilty confession, I am watching the Olympics. Then onto discussing two companies where the only questions are when does the money run out and what price the next bailout placing: FastForward (FFWD) and FastJet (FJET)
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 15 August 2016, 03:39 |
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When Negative Rates End, It Will Be Total and Complete Destruction
Marc Faber has been a student of markets since 1970, and has learned that the stock market is largely distorted and manipulated. The markets are no longer trading on sound fundamentals in a system where the quantity of money is relatively limited. The liquidity bubble created by central banks, paper money, interest rates, and quantitative easing are examples of this manipulation.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 15 August 2016, 01:42 |
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Lloyds Boss Antonio Horta-Osorio: it is not about illicit sex it is about money
Lloyds Bank (LLOY) boss Antonio Horta-Osorio stands accused of having illicit relations with Dr Wendy Platt, Director General of the Russell Group of Universities, whilst at a conference in Singapore. Moralists howl for his sacking for playing away with Dr Wendy. They have it all wrong.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 15 August 2016, 01:28 |
Aldermore Seems Oversold and Could Give You More
Hello Share Chimps. If you are a saver, the latest drop in interest rates is a bummer. How can you achieve anything like decent returns for your cash? Spend it on shares, of course. While you get nothing from your ordinary savings, you can still get up to 6% and even more by holding the right stock.
- By Malcolm Stacey |
- 15 August 2016, 01:15 |
Nakama - Recruitment minnow with results this week might be surprisingly good value
Taking a slight change of tack, today I’ll provide a brief overview of a company whose results are not due to be published until next week. Nakama, the international recruitment business, has witnessed a punishing sell-off which looks like it may have sent it into “value” territory.
- By Graham Neary |
- 14 August 2016, 10:23 |
Notes from Underground: Oh what a tangled web we weave
Just a reminder to those who love reading the shares bulletin boards, this is the difference between them and us: bulletin boards have crank opinions, ShareProphets have the documents.
- By Darren Atwater |
- 14 August 2016, 10:21 |
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Bulletin Board Ramper of the Week sponsored by Strat Aero PR man sayitlikeitis
Over the weekend we revealed how Strat Aero's PR man boasted of pretending to be a Bulletin Board Moron, sayitlikeitis, to post rampatstic nonsense on the LSE & ADVFN asylums. He was paid to ramp the stock with ludicrous claims and comments but some folks do it for free!. Please nominate your BB ramper of the week posting the most ludicrous claims you can find on boards or on twitter (so Big Gob tweet ramps are eligible) in the comments section below with a deadline of midnight Sunday 15th August. Ramps on any stock are eligible.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 14 August 2016, 01:29 |
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Optibiotix products on sale - small start but big potential: BUY
Optibiotix (OPTI) has announced that its GoFigure® meal replacement shakes and natural snack bars products are now available for sale in UK stores of the Whole Foods Market Inc, a large ($15 billion turnover in 2015) American supermarket chain exclusively featuring healthy foods. That sounds big but in fact it means being on the shelves in just eight stores although Optibiotix says there are " opportunities for further expansion".
- By HotStockRockets |
- 13 August 2016, 09:46 |
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XCite Energy: How the Debt Monster Ate Their Company
Or should I say, might eat their company. To say that the company has been eaten would involve making a prediction about the future and I steadfastly refuse to make predictions about what another company might do and what might happen to their share price. So this is all just analysis of what has already happened and what has already happened is that the debt monster has nearly eaten Xcite, or more precisely, Xcite's shareholders.
- By Steve Brown |
- 13 August 2016, 09:40 |
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast - Stockmarket Lessons from Empire by Niall Ferguson
I have been re-reading "Empire, how Britain Made The Modern World" by Niall Ferguson this weekend and it has some quite incredible stockmarket data and lessons for us all. It is a great read as I discuss.
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 13 August 2016, 09:40 |
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Get ready for an Autumn surge in Gold Stocks
We are seeing a few weeks of rest in the junior mining space, and many are predicting a massive rally this fall. Markets move up when there are more buyers than sellers, and down when the opposite occurs. Both the metals, and mining equities markets are extremely well bid. If there is a break in the market it’s likely to be on the upside, not the downside. That is the key message from Rick Rule of Sprott in this week's podcast from Palisade Capital
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 13 August 2016, 09:18 |
The Checklist Manifesto - How to Get Things Right
Ever heard of The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande? It’s a brilliant book about how to get things right when you’re performing complex and important tasks - whether that’s flying an airplane, performing surgery, or even making investments.
- By Graham Neary |
- 13 August 2016, 07:58 |
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blur Group – “is pleased to present” its half year results, it shouldn’t be…
Prodigious cash-burning machine (sorry, services platform and marketplace group), blur (BLUR) “is pleased to present its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2016”. Hmmm – this with the shares down from a start of the year 17p (and much, much higher when we first started warning) to a current little more than 7p…
- By Steve Moore |
- 13 August 2016, 06:26 |
Bull, Bull, Bull! This is Not A Load of Bull. The Rise of the Footsie Should Continue.
All Right. I know I am in incurable bull. But it is an attitude which has served me well over the years. Enough to make a living out of trading shares, anyway. We are in a gradual bull market now. This surprises a lot of folk, because the Brexit vote was expected to hit business hard. And yet - and this puzzles me, too - the Footsie has not been as high as it is now for a long, long time. It’s now only a whisper off its all time high record
- By Malcolm Stacey |
- 13 August 2016, 06:23 |
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Tom Winnifrith Bearcast, Great News from Shipston so over to Steve
Great news - may father is back home from hospital so I head back up to Warwickshire in a couple of days. Thereafter between him and the Mrs entering the final month it will be less of me, Steve Moore is in charge. Bash him if anything goes wrong. In today's podcast I look at City of London (CIN), IGAS (IGAS), XCite Energy (XEL), Wishbone Gold (WSBN), Nyota (NYO) and West African Minerals (WAFM).
- By Tom Winnifrith |
- 12 August 2016, 08:48 |
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Speedy Hire – notice of General Meeting circular hits back at Toscafund…
With Toscafund having last month requisitioned a General Meeting to seek the removal of Chairman Jan Astrand from, and appointment of David Shearer to, the board of Speedy Hire (SDY) and earlier this week further hitting out in an Open Letter, the tools, equipment and plant hire and support services company has today published a General Meeting notice - and hit back...
- By Steve Moore |
- 12 August 2016, 08:20 |
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Volution - It's complicated, but...
Volution Group (FAN) is another by-product of that IPO glut around 2014, when private equity funds found plenty of willing buyers for a wide range of businesses.
- By Graham Neary |
- 12 August 2016, 07:01 |
MediaZest - “pleased to provide shareholders with final results for the year ended 31 March 2016”. Hmmm…
“MediaZest (MDZ), the creative audio-visual company, is pleased to provide shareholders with final results for the year ended 31 March 2016… Best ever financial results with turnover of £3,144,000 and EBITDA profit of £58,000”. Hmmm, let’s take a closer look…
- By Steve Moore |
- 12 August 2016, 04:35 |