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Unexpected Lifeline for Tesco (TSCO) & Morrisons (MRW)

“Government guidelines are responsible for all major banks, many supermarkets and pub companies suffering colossal business and financial problems” – Tim Martin, chairman of Wetherspoon (JDW)   Neither Tesco nor Morrisons have ever been so out of touch with reality that they thought they could get away with blaming the government for their huge self imposed […]

Germans Have Stopped Making Enough Babies

Germans are not making enough babies with the result that the country is now sitting on a  very ugly demographic time bomb. Why ? is the question. Has nookie and rumpty tumpty suddenly become unfashionable amongst the denizons of the Munich beer halls and the Berlin cabaret bars. Do lederhosen and those voluminous Dirndl skirts […]

IS Solutions – ISL Jumps 35% on Trading Update

IS Solutions ISL is in the fast growing market for business intelligence software and analytics. Its share price has been steady having reached 55 p in early September 2014 and having closed last night at 52p.  Following this morning’s trading update the shares opened at 60p and then surged to 70p., a rise of 35% […]

Kicking Asos – Another Entrepreneur Bites The Dust

They’re at it again. The faceless ones have moved in on yet another icon of British commerce and demanded that the brilliant founder, the man with ideas, the man with drive, the man with initiative, falls on his sword and departs from the huge business which he created.  This time it is ASOS founder Nick […]

XAAR – Defying China

XAAR (XAR) specialises in inkjet printing technology and is a world leader in industrial inkjet print heads. In September 2013 its shares reached an all time high of 1150p and then collapsed to 220p., losing 80% of their value in the 12 months to September 2014. The company took immediate action to overcome the challenges […]

In a bananas market is Fyffes (FFY) the company to hold?

In a bananas market is this the company to hold? Alan Green discusses the case for Fyffes (FFY) with Justin Waite on the ADVFN podcast. Click here to listen to the podcast.   Updated Thurs Aug 27, cracking first half numbers from Fyffes (FFY) reports H1 EBITDA up 12.4% to €39.5m on total revenues up 8.7% to €644.3m. The […]

Call This A Crash ? – Remember 1974

The present sharp falls in world stock markets don’t even count as a minor bump, never mind a crash, compared to the collapse of 1973-74, when The London Stock Market lost 73% of its value in less than two years. From a peak of over 700 it fell to well under 200, with genuine fears […]