Paul Hill, one of Britain’s most successful private investors, picks the worst share tip from the press and brokers’ reports. This week: as we reach the top of the recruitment cycle, shares in a specialist …
New ‘chip and pin’ technology has significantly reduced credit-card fraud, but this is only the beginning. The US immigration department launched biometric passports last year that use fingerprints to identify visitors. Voice, iris, DNA, hand …
One of the most common mistakes that is made by retail investors is not being able to calculate the fair value of an equity. In particular, many shareholders wrongly fall in love with their stocks …
Top investor Paul Hill on the worst share tips from the week’s press and brokers’ reports. This week – a flaw in a recent merger will store up problems for the future. Turkey of the …
Eureka! Just occasionally, lightning strikes and something quite innocuous triggers a valuable insight into a new trend. This happened to me last week while I was enjoying a nice cappuccino with a colleague. My colleague …
For the last year, most commentators have been unanimous in their view on the world’s major equity markets. Stocks are a sell, they say, thanks to the fact that p/e ratios are in the mid …
The evidence suggests that the great Japan property bear has stopped roaring. But with many analysts misreading the data, the fantastic opportunities there could be overlooked… Is Japan’s great bear market in property over? There’s …
Since my last piece about how much better the Tokyo real estate market was starting to look (the deflation of the last 15 years appears to be all but over), the MoneyWeek offices have been …
Regular readers of MoneyWeek might remember that I’ve been warning about an impending housing slowdown in the UK since my first article on the subject appeared in May 2004. By most measures, the year-on-year rate …
Giant posters have appeared this week at Bank tube station featuring supermodel Claudia Schiffer draped in only a German flag. Designed to cash in on World Cup fever and emblazoned with saucy slogans, such as …