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Euro falls to multi year lows after ECB action
The European Central Banks decisive action to combat deflation in the eurozone with a heavy dose of quantitative easing has left the euro looking rather sick. Recently trading at 1.116 against the...
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Euro shrugs off Greek Syriza victory after recent falls
Things didn’t look great for the euro earlier today with the currency trading against the dollar at a fresh 11 year low of 1.10976 yesterday on the news that the left wing Syriza party had won the...
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Another bombshell for Afren shareholders
The Nigerian focused and FTSE 250 oil explorer, Afren, seems to have a habit of releasing awful RNS’s of late. After the resources write down in Kurdistan a few weeks, which followed the controversy...
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Apple has another amazing quarter as iPhone looks unstoppable
Yet again Apple and Tim Cook produced another incredible set of earnings and managed to produce the biggest quarterly profit in history. Apple’s revenue rose 30% to $74.6 billion from $57.6 billion...
View ArticleGreece warns the world – ‘no more pretending and extending’!
There is something different about Greece’s new finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, which markets don’t yet seem to have woken up to. He speaks the truth. Since the Financial Crisis erupted in 2008,...
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Where Next for the FTSE 100?
For the last two years the FTSE 100 has been relatively easy to trade. Stuck in a 900 or so point range, Britain’s index of leading companies has failed to make a new all-time high, despite at least...
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Baltic Dry Index slumps – more trouble for Miners
The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) has collapsed over the last two months. This index, derived from activity on twenty-three of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, has historically acted as an excellent proxy...
View ArticlePrimed to catch the next big move of the FTSE100!
I’ve been watching the FTSE 100 like a hawk over the last few days. I suggested recently that the current market could present a very low risk shorting opportunity. My logic was simple. Given how close...
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Oil Price Analysis: The Impact Of Supply and Demand
Global oil markets are witnessing a profound change in the shape of a correction that happens once in 20 years if not more. The oil price slide, which began in July 2014 and has seen major benchmarks...
View ArticleThe Black Hole At The Heart Of Europe
A financial warning from history. This article was written almost 18 years ago, shortly after the EU formally agreed to introduce the Euro in 1999. What foresight! By Laurence Copeland, Professor of...
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