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Rate shock: How are housebuilders, estate agents and property firms coping?
Thursday 06 Jul 2023June’s larger-than-expected half percentage point interest rate rise has pushed the FTSE 100 index back into negative territory for the year and triggered fears of recession among investors and market observers. Moreover, there seems little doubt the UK central bank will raise rates again at its...
Revealed: the companies which could join the exodus from the UK market
Thursday 29 Jun 2023There are an increasing number of large firms which are thinking about changing their main share listing from the UK to the US or elsewhere, raising fears London is losing its importance. This article explains why companies are giving serious thought to this issue and who might be next to press the...
Investing for children: How to give them a head start in life
Thursday 29 Jun 2023There are important things to consider if you want to invest for your child. For example, what age to start investing, what investment strategy to adopt and whether you should get your children involved in picking stocks and funds. We will now go through the key points. The average cost of raising...
Investing in ‘under-owned, underappreciated and undervalued’ emerging markets: 30 years of change
Thursday 29 Jun 2023The co-manager of Templeton Emerging Markets Trust (TEM) , Andrew Ness, has a nice line when questioned on how these markets have changed since he started following them professionally nearly three decades ago. ‘These aren’t your grannies’ emerging markets,’ he says. He has seen three substantive...
The bull market is back: why stocks have rebounded 20% from recent lows
Thursday 22 Jun 2023The commonly accepted definition of a bull market is when an index gains 20% or more from previous lows and by this measure the S&P 500 index entered a new bull phase on 8 June 2023. It isn’t a hard and fast definition and there are investors who think it is a bear market rally rather than the...
The prospect of higher interest rates could create a scramble for income
Thursday 22 Jun 2023If, as is being widely suggested, the Bank of England is likely to continue tightening monetary conditions by raising rates close to 6% in its effort to combat inflation, we suspect investors are going to want a higher degree of income protection than they have so far this year. The good news for...
Standard Chartered: will it receive a new bid or ditch the UK stock market?
Thursday 22 Jun 2023If most of us are asked to name a bank with large exposure to Asia, the likelihood is the first name that comes to mind is HSBC ( HSBA ) rather than its smaller rival Standard Chartered ( STAN ) . In fairness, having been established in Hong Kong and Shanghai more than 150 years ago to help finance...
Strike it rich: three oil and gas stocks with big opportunities
Thursday 15 Jun 2023After a strong 2022 as energy prices surged in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the UK’s contingent of UK small and mid-cap oil and gas companies has endured a much more challenging time in 2023. Windfall taxes have taken a big bite out of profits and commodity markets have fallen back as...
Transformers vs Barbie: How Hasbro and Mattel make big money from their intellectual property
Thursday 08 Jun 2023Toy and family entertainment franchise owner Mattel (MAT:NYSE) has dubbed 2023 The Year of the Doll ahead of the 21 July release of a big blockbuster Barbie movie starring Hollywood favourites Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie. The Oscar winning actor coproduced the film with Warner Bros Discovery (...
What will it take for ESG investing to come back into favour?
Thursday 08 Jun 2023Companies are increasingly bending over backwards to let us know how ‘good’ they are, often with the aim of luring investors and attracting higher valuations. The idea of bringing about meaningful change through the choices we make as investors and peering beyond simple concepts of maximising...