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Emerging markets: big overseas investment in India and earnings recovery
Thursday 31 Aug 2023Are you an Emerging Markets Guru? 10 quick questions – some amazing answers. Take the quiz and see how you score. 1. Foreign institutional investor (FII) flows into India: Investor flows turned positive in March following a recovery in the equity market, with $15 billion in inflows year-to-date...
Big domestic consumption is driving growth in India
Thursday 31 Aug 2023A big transition in the development of emerging markets tends to be an increase in the contribution of domestic consumption to economic growth. Historically, emerging markets have tended to be much more reliant on exports to the West to grow their economies. Making the transition to greater...
FTSE 100, S&P 500, Nasdaq: Discover the stocks and sectors driving these big global indices and more
Thursday 24 Aug 2023Whether you’re saving for retirement, looking to pay off your mortgage or any other future objective, investing in equities has been one of the most successful ways of generating long-term value creation. According to data from Bloomberg from April 2023, global equities, represented by the FTSE All...
Why Premier Foods’ growth prospects are exceedingly good
Thursday 24 Aug 2023One of Shares 2023 Tips of The Year , Mr. Kipling, Bisto, Sharwood’s and Ambrosia brands owner Premier Foods’ ( PFD ) stock is up 11.5% year-to-date, extending five-year gains to nigh-on 190%. Ravenous investor appetite for the shares in recent years reflects the considerable progress made in...
How to analyse Lloyds Banking in five easy steps
Thursday 24 Aug 2023As this is the last instalment in our five step stock analysis series (and we would encourage you to go back and read parts one , two and three , we’ve decided to do something a bit different and examine a bank. This means using different measures of profitability, returns and valuation. To analyse...
How to analyse Greggs in five easy steps
Thursday 17 Aug 2023Having analysed Microsoft (MSFT:NASDAQ) and Unilever ( ULVR ) in parts one and two , part three of Shares new mini-series is an examination of the key metrics and investment merits of Greggs ( GRG ) . A more down-to-earth choice but unquestionably one of the UK’s favourite options for food on the...
Smith & Nephew management under big pressure to deliver on their promises
Thursday 17 Aug 2023Medical device and prosthetics specialist Smith & Nephew ( SN. ) is one of those businesses which you think should do well because it operates in a market with demographics on its side. An ageing population is likely to need an increasing number of knee and hip replacements, creating bigger...
Your favourite funds: Are they reliant on just a few holdings for their returns?
Thursday 17 Aug 2023We have touched before on the issue of ‘concentration risk’ or having too many eggs in one basket and the benefits of a diversified portfolio. The recent decision by the Nasdaq stock exchange to reduce the weighting of the biggest tech stocks has once again raised the question, can you have too...
Why investors in US shares may have to lower their growth expectations
Thursday 17 Aug 2023With investors’ attention fixed on inflation and interest rates an economist at the US Federal Reserve argues investors should prepare themselves for a sharp drop in net income growth over coming decades. A new research paper by Michael Smolyansky based on data from Compustat shows that net income...
How to analyse Unilever in five easy steps
Thursday 10 Aug 2023Following our look at Microsoft (MSFT:NASDAQ) , this is the second instalment in the Shares mini-series aimed at arming readers with an easy-to-use five step framework which can be applied to most popular types of company. Hopefully the structure we’ve provided will allow you to quickly assess if a...