It would seem the challenging start to the year is well and truly behind us now with the UK 100 index up 800+ points from the lows seen in February. We still can’t ignore fairy tale moves in UK 100 companies like Anglo American (+230%) and Glencore (+100%) over the same time frame. In terms of…
Monday morning seems like an age ago when markets got their first opportunity to react to a failed attempt between OPEC members and Russia to agree a global production freeze to boost oil prices. The Doha/Qatar meet was a joke. However, rather than selling-off hard at the prospect of a continued global supply glut, prices…
Smiths Group shares are strongest among the this morning as investors digest news that the group is acquiring US detection company Morpho from French Aerospace and Defense giant Safran for $710m. While news of an acquisition tends to dent the acquirer’s share price (spending cash/diluting shareholders by issuing shares, risk of overpaying, integration risk, etc) the…
Is the next financial crisis around the corner? I know, it’s a fashionable question to ask and one that everyone’s got an opinion on. I don’t have one, but now you’ve clicked through to our website I shall reward you with some prose – some dross about something that’s concerning me to do with oil…
ARM holdings shares are taking a big leg up and heading the UK Index this morning with Q1 results from the chip architect being well received as profits managed mid-teen percentage growth in spite of a 20% increase in R&D spend. Investors like the sound of revenues +22% in GBP and 4.1bn chips being shipped in…
If you eat a lot of full fat food and have a sedentary lifestyle, you put on weight. If you’re a bon viveur, unfortunately, you put on weight. If you exercise like Arnold Schwarzenegger and drink protein shakes 3 times a day, you also put on weight. A lot of the time what you do and…