“Wall Street has had the breathless anticipation of a man waiting for a sneeze that won’t quite come,” says The Economist. The Dow Jones Industrial Average’s move back towards its all-time closing high of 11,723 …
Dow struggles back to highs
Category: Investments
What ‘Deal or No Deal’ can tell us about hedge funds
We’re living in interesting times. A popular TV program called “Deal or No Deal” – a high-stakes game show of odds and chance – says it all. On the show, contestants compete for cash inside …
Avoid estate agents – build your own home
Though relatively straight-forward, moving into an existing property in today’s market is by no means cheap. It’s one reason for the growing popularity of self-built homes. Sure, the stress and strain of dealing with everything …
Fund of the Week: little-known manager outperforms Bolton
As Anthony Bolton’s much admired Fidelity Special Situations fund splits in two, it’s worth drawing attention to one of the few fund managers who has matched his performance over the past three years. In fact, …
Are investors warming to natural gas?
‘You’re seeing the earliest phase of natural gas history for the next 30-50 years…energy use goes in 50-year swings. You had wood, then coal, then oil and now natural gas.’ Fred Barrett, natural gas executive …
Is this new investment trend bigger than the internet?
Knowing what you know today, if you had the opportunity to go back in time and invest in the Internet sector in 1997 would you do it? Silly question I know. Even the no-names of …
Boring no longer – why you should hang on to your utilities shares
Utilities were traditionally seen as pretty boring investments – and with good reason. With their regulated prices and virtually guaranteed demand, electricity networks, water companies, gas pipelines, port operators and airports had predictable revenues and …
How Labour’s meddling has damaged UK stocks
The FTSE 100 seems to have put May’s wobbles behind it: there is no shortage of new issues and the stock exchange routinely handles levels of business that would have been considered out of the …
Three reasons why Stephen Roach is bearish on commodities
For the second time in five months, commodity markets are coming under serious selling pressure. I don’t think this is a fluke. The demand underpinnings for industrial materials could well be deteriorating at precisely the …
Don’t mourn – commodities bull has a snort left
“The mega-run for commodities has run its course”, according to Morgan Stanley’s chief global economist Stephen Roach. (See: Three Reasons why Stephen Roach is bearishon commodities). With the benchmark CRB commodities index 18% down from its …