What is the yield curve telling investors?

No investment indicator is infallible – if it were, none of us would be working and all of us would be playing the markets (only...

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Key catalysts for markets before the end of 2020

There is plenty for investors to think about as we approach the end of a tumultuous year. For UK stocks the most significant remains Brexit...

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Questions still linger over National Grid and SSE dividends

Large utility companies will make lower returns under new plans by energy regulator Ofgem, yet the cuts aren’t as bad as previously mooted. That triggered...

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Interesting green twist on Volution’s new debt facility

Volution (FAN) 244p

Gain to date: 35.2%

Original entry point: Buy at 180.5p, 9 July 2020


News of positive trading and...

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Big Goco shareholder Peter Wood throws weight behind Future tie-up

At least one person appears to be a very big fan of Future’s (FUTR) recommended £535 million cash and shares deal for Goco...

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Begbies Traynor prepares for wave of insolvencies

Begbies Traynor (BEG:AIM) 89p

Gain to date: 1.1%

Original entry point: Buy at 88p, 19 December 2019


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The fund making a positive change to investors’ savings

Baillie Gifford Positive Change (BYVGKV5) 338.2p

Gain to date: 59.2%

Original entry point: Buy at 212.5p, 7 May 2020


Many investors shun funds...

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Higher margins should drive big share price gains for DiscoverIE

Electronics engineer DiscoverIE (DSCV) has been on quite a journey  in recent years, pulling itself up the supplier value chain by executing a...

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Supply chain issues could mean a bleak winter for UK consumers

There is growing concern among hauliers, freight forwarders and their customers that even with a last-minute Brexit deal the UK’s ‘just in time’ supply chain...

Thu, 10/12/2020 - 00:00


magazine 10 Dec 2020

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Shares looks at large cap pharmaceutical companies and the prospects for the sector. It selects three stocks to buy and one to avoid.

Discover the best performing ETFs in 2020 and how thematic products have dominated the list. You can also read about ways to invest in global smaller companies via funds, investment trusts and ETFs.

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