A quick heads up. We’re noting a lot going on to do with air pollution today, and it really does seem to be the topic of the moment as we round off the week. As yet more revelations surface about car emissions in the wake of last year’s VW scandal, it’s now become apparent that…
This week has been a cracker for those trading around corporate results, with updated quarterly financials providing attractive share prices moves for both long-term investors and short-term traders. How did you and your positions fare? Were you proactive or reactive? Were you on the right side of the risers and fallers or were you chasing…
International Consolidated Airlines shares are testing 2-month lows despite what would appear to be a decent set of Q1 results. Eh? What’s not to like about a welcome return to profitability in the seasonally weak first quarter (it’s been 5 years!) and operating performance helped by the Aer Lingus acquisition? Well, what’s disappointing those prepared…
The UK banks have once again handed investors a big dollop of volatility around Q1 results, showing that the devil is indeed in the details of sometimes complex and confusing earnings reports. Lloyds Banking Group shares kicked off today’s session in particularly vicious fashion as fuel for both bulls and bears was mined from its…
As the adage goes, an Apple a day keeps the doctor at bay. But this doesn’t apply to £650 iPhones. And with good reason – they cost £650. If apples cost £650, you wouldn’t buy them all that often either. Heck, if Apple shares cost £650…. It’s an oft made observation that share prices will…
Anglo American shares have resumed their envious 3-month uptrend (+230% from Jan lows) with investors clearly subscribing to the view that smaller and less-diversified is now better in this new world of lower commodity prices. The $1.5bn sale of one of its largest Brazilian businesses (niobium and phosphates, to China Molybdenum) kicks off and takes it…