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Mark Watson-Mitchell takes an overview of the market, gold, interest rates and house prices and comes out mostly bullish

17.01.2025 Have you noticed just how our UK equity market has been firming up since just before last Christmas? The FTSE 100 Index was...

Will a Santa Rally complete a year of impressive returns for investors?

With Christmas just weeks away and the festive party season now in full swing, investors have an extra reason to celebrate this year: it...

Mike Ashley - Certainly one of life’s ‘triers’ – but will he get it on?

What is the expression? All the world likes a ‘trier’! And certainly, that is how I consider Mike Ashley, especially in his recent...

UK House Prices – Sellers Pull Back On Lower Prices

The average price tag on newly marketed houses, according to Rightmove, has fallen by more than £5,366. The easing back in value is said...

Gold – Ready For Another Move Upwards

The way that the Gold Futures were running quickly ahead at the end of last month, just days ahead of the Rachel Reeves massive tax...

Filtronic – up 260% and SRT Marine Systems – down 30%

Filtronic (LON:FTC) – Up 260% Since Early January But Don’t Chase Yesterday morning the designer and manufacturer of products for...

Horse/Man, Pawnbrokers, Gold and RMI

Centaur Media (LON:CAU) – Up 38% In Two Weeks, Now With A Private Equity Bidder? Yesterday must have pleased Richard Griffiths,...

Small Cap Catch-Up: Billington, The DX Bid, Futura, Northcoders and Braemar

Billington Holdings (LON:BILN) – A Buy Ahead Of Interims Next Tuesday? This group’s shares really are excellent value, trading on only...

THG – Matt Moulding cedes his ‘Special Share’ and strengthens Board ahead of today’s AGM

Shareholders in beauty and nutrition online retailer THG (LON:THG), which is holding its Annual General Meeting to approve its results...

Greatland Gold – Rio Tinto Exploration farm-in and JV into Paterson South Project catches 'shorters'

Greatland Gold – Rio Tinto Exploration farm-in and JV arrangement into its Paterson South Project could catch out the ‘shorters’ Apart...

Aston Martin Lagonda – Goldfinger was in the East waiting to pump £95m of new cash into the brand

Aston Martin Lagonda – Goldfinger was in the East waiting to pump £95m cash into the ultra-luxury brand Well now we know where Goldfinger...

Alien Metals – renegotiated agreement to double Hancock Project landholding and provide right of way

Alien Metals – renegotiated agreement to double Hancock Project landholding and provide right of way to important infrastructure link The...

Plant Health Care – Brazil gives first stage approval for PREtec product for soybean cultivavation

Plant Health Care – Brazil gives first stage approval for its new PREtec product for soybean cultivation It is only the first stage but...

Sureserve Group – 125p agreed cash offer – sell now and reinvest in Totally

Wow – what a double winner for readers who had invested in Sureserve Group (LON:SUR). Today it has been announced that a company called...

Woodbois - $6m lending facility being withdrawn, will the company survive, shares collapse 65%

Investors are now questioning whether Woodbois (LON:WBI) will survive one of its lenders asking for its money back? The £9m market...

THG – shares jump 36% on approach from Apollo Global

The UK Investor recently featured THG (LON:THG) online retailer has had an approach from Apollo Global Management. In reaction the...

MJ Gleeson – low-cost home developer sees a 40% fall in profits this year

The half-time results to end December from MJ Gleeson (LON:GLE), the UK’s leading low-cost housebuilding group, showed a 1.4% fall in...

Small Cap catch-up: SYS, ZIN, GPH, CNIC, BGO and CODE

SysGroup (LON:SYS) – massive cross-selling potential On Monday morning this provider of IT services, cyber security and cloud hosting...

Market reaction to the pound hitting a record low

By Rupert Thompson, Investment Strategist at Kingswood The past week has been a torrid affair with major moves in many markets. Global...

What does the ‘mini-Budget’ mean for your finances?

New Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng introduced a raft of tax cuts today in arguably the UK’s biggest fiscal event in decades. By Rob Morgan,...

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