Unlike the FTSE 100, the FTSE 250 has put in a pretty decent performance over the last couple of decades. Since it peaked in 2007 (at the end of the early 2000s credit bubble), the FTSE 250 has just about doubled and since its peak in 2000 (at the end of the dot-com bubble) the … Read more
After the publication of UK’s Autumn Budget, the British Pound (GBP) was under immense pressure this week. UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves nails consumers with £40 billion tax increases, the largest fiscal tightening since 1993. Immediately following the announcements, the Pound lost value as markets estimated how much the economy would suffer. Chancellor Reeves unveiled massive … Read more
AIM is set to outperform the All Share for remainder of CY2025 The perfect storm that hit London’s AIM following peak-Pandemic in Q2 2021, has seen the index tumble by an extraordinary 60% relative to the FTSE All Share leaving it trading almost 40% below its 10-year average. Total listings have thinned down to just … Read more
Time to celebrate – we made it through the #pandemic! Well, almost… Vaccine roll-outs continue, some fast some slow, but crossing the actual finish line remains maddeningly elusive here. Unfortunately, as so often proves the case, the loudest & craziest perspectives tend to control the narrative. On one side, we have the #antivaxx nutters & … Read more
At Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting over the weekend, chairman Warren Buffett warned that US debt has reached unsustainable levels. He joins the long and growing list of prominent people who have cautioned on the alarming debt situation. “We are operating at a fiscal deficit now that is unsustainable over a very long period of time. … Read more
UK house prices have been in a bubble for almost 20 years, which makes it one of the longest-running bubbles in history. This is very interesting because bubbles almost never last this long. They usually only last a few years, and every bubble in history has ended when the temporary factors that inflated it came … Read more
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In North American trading, gold prices climbed to all-time highs of $2,956 per ounce, while the U.S. dollar fell and Treasury yields declined. The market is in the middle of one of gold’s longest bullish streaks, with prices up for eight weeks. Investors have confidence in gold as gold-backed ETFs have seen the most net inflows since 2022, … Read more
by Ed Croft, Founder & CEO of Stockopedia If you’re anything like me, you probably didn’t start investing with a perfectly thought through plan. You may have looked at fund managers and thought you could do better. Maybe you invested in funds, but were disappointed by the results. You wanted more control, higher returns, a … Read more
Looking back, I must admit I never imagined reaching this kind of anniversary…but yeah, the Wexboy blog turned 10 years-old earlier this month! A journey that kicked off with this Sirius Real Estate buy (at an astonishing 0.31 P/B!) in Nov-2011. Which was obviously a stock-picking tour de force – noting SRE‘s been a 7-BAGGER+ … Read more