Stock Tipsters

The dead cats have been bouncing. Normally I would be trying to catch these falling knives but I simply do not have the nerve at present. In a nutshell I think this is 2008 all over again and that this little rally will tilt over into a giant fall. Of course I can’t really know […]

Well the big Euro move came a bit faster than expected. Clearly this move was out of the bag on the weekend. Don’t expect any financial regulators to look into this fine piece of market insider trading though but bear it in mind for the future, that in the euro crisis the market will move […]

I have been out of the markets since just before the US downgrade. My position is: keep my powder dry till the real crash happens. Yet I love stocks so it’s hard to stay away. These are testing times, but deep down I like a test – it’s the cricketer in me. I should be […]

Well finally the leaders of Europe manage to do the blooming obvious. My Lloyds position would have made a nice return overnight but I don’t feel to sorry. Over the previous few months it has become clear to me that government measures in Europe and the UK are leaked into the market days before we […]

These are very difficult times to invest. The sword of European disintegration hangs over all our heads and a failure today by those that lead us will set Europe fast down the road of financial disaster. The call is between deflation and inflation, but to me it is obvious we are in for a giant […]

Unsustainable government debt, broken budgets and huge trade imbalances. Wednesday is crunch-time. The EU’s 13th crisis management summit in two years, held in Brussels at the weekend, was the non-event we have come to expect from the leaders of a world economy mired in inescapable debt. Wednesday October 26 is now the big day. So […]