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According to my deluded lefty step mother Michael Gove is a wicked and useless man for trying (and failing) to change the exam system. The lefty belief is that there has been enough tampering and teachers and schoolchildren should just be left with some stability and to get on with it. Underpinning this is the […]

This article first appeared in my bi-weekly Tomograph newsletter just overa  week ago, but perhaps merits a wider audience. To receive this weekly newsletter with exclusive articles on hot shares, investment and economics plus links to all my articles on 10 US and UK websites click HERE The London Mayor wants to be the next leader of […]

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL): A Year Of Pent Up Selling Pressure The inspiration for Lessons From The Financial Markets For 2013 was a two pronged one in the autumn of 2012, with the fiasco of the Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) as well as the rise and rise of Apple. The question is what would happen in 2013. Would Facebook […]

AIM listed Chinese joke company Geong (LSE:GNG) is always a bundle of laughs. This is a company that works on projects for 18 months, does not invoice yet books the amounts as income. I have pointed out before that its balance sheet backing is illusory, that its “profits” ho ho ho never translate into cash […]

During the past week alone more than 350 seats have been booked for the UKL’s premier one day investor conference, UKInvestor Show which takes place in London on April 13th. Of the 2,500 seats on offer more than 60% are now allocated.  We expect all the seats to be booked within the next few weeks. […]

When the markets are plunging you tend to read quite a bit about Evil Knievil in the press. Every graduate trainee journalist wants to know what the UK’s best known short seller has to say. When markets are rising as they are now, he tends to fade from view somewhat. Of course you can get […]

Banco Daycoval’s investors please note Banco Daycoval (BOV:DAYC4) has approved the implementation of a share buyback program using its reserves. Daycoval plans to acquire up to 6.246 million preferred shares. This amount’s to 9.78% of preferred shares, which is about 63,845,839 that are currently in the market. The program has until January 17, 2014. BRIC […]

TREND FOLLOWING IT IS! “The trending market is an ideal market to trade and make money. What trend following is not is prediction or forecasting about how the markets will go. Trend following is based on reacting to price, price and again, price. It is not based on trying to predict price directions.” – Michael […]

Anyone who invests in Amil (BOV:AMIL3), look at this … UNITED HEALTH GROUP (NYSE:UNH) REPORTS 2012 RESULTS, Revenues of $110.6 Billion Grew 9% Year-Over-Year, Including an 11% Increase in Fourth Quarter Revenues Full Year United Healthcare Earnings Grew 8% Year-Over-Year; United Healthcare Grew to Serve more than 6 Million Additional People in 2012, Including Nearly […]

Welsh wafer company IQE (LSE:IQE) is no two bit penny stock. It is capitalised at £227 million. That is not the sort of company whose share price is moved by traditional tipsheets. Yet its shares did move today directly after a free share tip was sent out by ADVFN’s new Onefreesharetip.com service. Now 11 days […]