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The FT’s fund management supplement recently reported that “90% of UK active funds beat the market”. This headline might surprise you because historically it is known that active…
Read moreI attended the Annual General Meeting of National Grid this week (on the 28th July). It was a typical FTSE-100 company AGM with questions on all kinds of…
Read moreFollowing on from my blog post a couple of days ago about the high pound impacting the profits of technology companies, yesterday saw final results from Renishaw (RSW)…
Read moreToday Croda issued their interim results for the six months to the end of June. Croda is a speciality chemicals company and less than 10% of its revenue…
Read moreToday Tesco announced that CEO Philip Clarke is departing. The statement included a further profit warning which mentioned that the overall market is weaker and trading profit in the…
Read moreToday (17/7/2014) Alkane Energy announced a placing to raise £8m to fund the acquisition of three power response companies. The placing was at 36p, when the closing price…
Read moreAt the Blinkx AGM today the events of the last year were various described by the management as a “black swan event”, “one in a 1000 years”, and…
Read moreThe West Bromwich Building Society recently issued their accounts for their financial year ending in March 2014. They actually managed to make a small profit after years of…
Read moreZoopla Property Group listed on the stock market on the 18th June. It’s an opportune time to review that company and its main competitor, Rightmove, because you can…
Read moreThe Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) held its Annual General Meeting yesterday (the 25th June). Most of the media did not even bother to report it. There were…
Read moreA number of companies on which ShareSoc has commented recently were in the news today (23/6/2014) or over the preceding weekend. Let’s cover each in turn: Kentz Kentz…
Read moreA major fire at ASOS’s Barnsley distribution centre late on Friday night (20/6/2014) has caused it to suspend operations. At the time of writing (the Sunday morning following)…
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