UK 17:56 Friday, 30 October 2026
Breaking news and expert analysis on fast-moving AIM and LSE listed shares
Hello Share Twiddlers. One of my first suggestions of the New Year is a Footsie giant that, in a very long career, I can’t recall mentioning before. But in these days of very little choice for stock buyers, this well-known jumbo looks safer than most.
I don’t think the 2020s is the 1970s mark two, but I really don’t think it will be the 2010s mark two either. And that suggests you are going to have to pick-and-choose more carefully during the 2020s. This is why, looking back to the 1970s, there are many relevant reasons why ‘gold’, ‘commodities’ and ‘value versus growth’ were the best performers across the decade then…and that should be the same against ‘bonds’ or ‘cash’ and ‘growth stocks’ by the time we get to the end of 2029. Anyhow, all of this brings me to the question of Anglo American (AAL), with its diamonds, copper, nickel, iron ore and metallurgical and thermal coal exposure.
