People walk out of a Lenta supermarket in Moscow. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/ReutersThe Russian hypermarket chain Lenta has announced plans to float in London with a valuation of over $5bn (£3bn).The company, in which the US private equity firm TPG and Russia’s VTB Capital have the biggest stakes, has jumped a queue of British retailers that are set to follow suit […]
Get Forex buy/sell signals directly to your email and by SMS. To learn more click hereA sharp drop in the U.S. Dollar overnight helped February Gold futures reverse earlier weakness, putting the market in a position to post a solid gain today. Conditions looked bleak shortly after the opening when gold took out the last swing bottom at $1233.50, turning […]
Sentiment, a social intelligence and engagement platform, has raised £1 million in Series A funding. The financing round was led by Elderstreet Investments, with participation from AIM-listed technology company Netcall. Sentiment also has appointed Elderstreet’s co-founder and managing director Michael Jackson as chairman of the board of directors.Press ReleaseSentiment, (the trading name of Macranet Ltd), the social intelligence and engagement platform, […]
Happy New Year! For the first time since 2008, we investors, economists and businesspeople say these words without irony. While last year was statistically disappointing, with global growth slowing slightly from 2012 and apparently belying the optimism expressed here last January, the verdict of financial markets and business sentiment has been much more consistent with my predictions. Despite the apparent […]
Deep in December, It’s nice to remember, The fire of September.
– The FantasticksUnfortunately the stock market’s September surge, fueled by that month’s stunning decision from the Fed to keep its quantitative easing intact, is becoming increasingly tough to recall three months on. (Lest I stand accused of playing the world’s saddest song on the world’s smallest violin, let me point […]
Twitter slips as sentiment sours
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Just Retirement is returning to the stock market valued at £1.1bn Photograph: Toby Melville/REUTERSJust Retirement, the provider of pensions to retirees with health problems, will return to the stock market valued at £1.1bn.The British company is selling a 30.5% stake, or 152m shares priced at 225p in Tuesday’s listing, in the middle of its original range of between 200p and […]
In How to Trade in Stocks, Jesse Livermore discussed “the folly of trying to find out a good reason why you should buy or sell a given stock.”He wrote in the context of the behavior of U.S. stocks, whose four major sectors – including steel makers – had risen after World War 2 began. While other sectors continued to advance, […]
