Archive for Theo Casey
Theo Casey is a contributing author to Fleet Street Daily.It’s Still Too Soon To Come Back to the FTSE
In May I wrote a piece on the popular market adage, “Sell in May and go away.” The principle was cooked up after a study by the Stock Market Almanac into market timing. It researched when the best stock market performance is achieved.
Want Big Profits? Go East in the Year of the Bear
The “experts” got it wrong, again. You may recall the optimism our investment banking chums had for the stock market at the start of the year.
How to Play the FTSE Promotion Premium
Picking stocks can be an overwhelming affair… there’s just so many ways to skin this cat.
Sterling’s Demise Good News for Blue Chips
“I don’t like sterling. I’d even sell sterling against sterling!” — David Bloom, HSBC’s chief currency strategist speaking to CNBC on June 16th 2008. Poor old Britain, literally.
House Price Affordability
It is easy to think about the credit crunch in terms of banks. The banks made these weird structured products, the banks are responsible for the borrowing rate, the banks falling market cap is dragging on the FTSE, etc.
Sportingbet Profits Mark Turnaround
Web-based bookie Sportingbet (LSE: SBT) tickled investors with a third-quarter profit boost driven by active European and Australian gambling markets.
Ryanair’s Last Hurrah?
A budget airliner made a profit. I wonder how old I will be the next time I write this?
Bradford and Bingley’s White Swan Event
When is a Black Swan not a Black Swan? When the “perfect storm of highly improbable events” happens all the time.
Bill Gates Buys Stake In Carpetright
When Philip Harris, now Lord / Baron Harris of Peckham, set up his first Carpetright on the Manor road, Canning town in 1988 he can’t have imagined it would all come to this.
Burberry, a Passport to Profits
OK, this is very much a “work-in-progress”, but here’s a selection of some of the stocks we’ve been looking at lately. All three are UK based and UK listed. But each of them has an ‘international flavour’ — just what you need in your portfolio right now!
Latest News
- Why Smart Investors Should Be Thinking about Cows11:42am CDT
- Why Energy and Resource Plays Will Profit in the Long Term10:41am CDT
- Some Very Healthy Resource Stocks Are ‘Shockingly’ Cheap10:20am CDT
- How to Play the Sovereign Wealth Fund Property Boom9:26am CDT
- Early Indicators: Europe Acts to Rescue Banks… Stocks Up…9:19am CDT
- Nouriel Roubini: Markets Will Fall Another 20%5:55pm CDT
- Goerge Soros: Financial Crisis Is the ‘End of an Era’1:48pm CDT
- Government Rescues Will Trigger a Bull Market in Gold11:22am CDT
- Natural Gas and Water Are the Investments of the Future2:41pm CDT
- J. Cristoph Amberger Says Buy Ford, Alon, GE, GM and GM Now11:00am CDT
- Get Ready for a Big Bear Market Bounce10:31am CDT
- Italy Shores Up Banking Sector as Recession Looms10:14am CDT
- Markets Plunge on Costly Credit, Paulson to Buy Bank Shares, IMF Warns of Global Recession10:09am CDT
- Why the Dow’s 40% Nosedive May Turn Into a Safe Landing10:01am CDT
- IBM Bucks Earnings Trend as Tech-Sector Stocks Trade Down to Bargain Levels9:55am CDT
- Andrew Snyder Says Potash Corp (POT) Still Has Further to Fall9:27am CDT
- Global Investing Roundups Friday, October 10th, 20089:14am CDT
- Early Indicators: Dow 5,000?8:18am CDT
- Chuck Butler: A New Trading Theme5:31pm CDT