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Ian Pollard – Uncle Still Thriving On The Impoverished Wealthy

H&T Group HAT expects profit before tax for the full year to 31st December will be above market expectations following a strong fourth quarter in pawnbroking, with quality watches doing particularly well. The pledge book increased by11.6% on a year ago following the higher gold price and the personal loans book rocketed by 94.7%, after […]

Ken Baksh – Do you have enough…..commodities?

  Black Rock Commodities Income Investment Trust –ISIN GB00B0N8MF98 Commodities have made a strong start in 2018, rising to a three-year high. The Bloomberg Commodity Spot index hits its highest level since 2014 last week after strong readings for manufacturing activity around the world and  increased global demand forecasts. A weaker dollar and various supply […]

Andrew Hore – Quoted Micro 8 January 2018

NEX EXCHANGE     Kryptonite 1 (KR1) has invested $249,000 in a presale of 4,775,686 Simple tokens in a project administered by OpenST Ltd. The plan is for the tokens to be used to enable digital currencies to be launched by businesses. There has also been a $100,000 investment in the presale of tokens in the […]

Ian Pollard – Tiddlers Taking Off

Taptica TAP Tremor Video has performed better than expected and has achieved profitability during 2017 rather than 2018. With significant contributions to revenue from its newly opened international offices, it now expects to report adjusted EBITDA for full year 2017 will be ahead of market expectations. Sopheon plc SPE The build up of momentum highlighted […]

Ken Baksh – January 2018 market Report……New challenges and opportunities!

by Ken Baksh Ken has over 35 years of investment management experience, working for two major City institutions between 1976 and 2002. Since then he has been engaged as a self-employed investment consultant. He has worked with investment trusts, unit trusts, pension funds, charities, Life Fund,hedge fund and private clients. Individual asset managed have included direct […]

Ian Pollard – Next #NXT succumbs to High St woes

NEXT NXT colder weather and a big rise in online sales helped Next to beat expectations for full price sales in the 54 days between 1st November and the 24th December, with a rise of 1.5% as against an expected fall of -0.3%. Within that figure however, retail sales were a disaster with a fall […]

Ian Pollard – Old Year jottings..New Year fears

The city still slumbers on and only next week will it begin to wake up to the first of the disasters which it will have to face in 2018. That will naturally be the Nightmare on High Street as our major retailers also wake up to the fact that whilst Britain was still playing at […]

Ken Baksh – Public Infrastructure… investment opportunity for 2018?

by Ken Baksh Ken has over 35 years of investment management experience, working for two major City institutions between 1976 and 2002. Since then he has been engaged as a self-employed investment consultant. He has worked with investment trusts, unit trusts, pension funds, charities, Life Fund,hedge fund and private clients. Individual asset managed have included direct […]