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Bloggers’ cramp, do not disengage!

I fit this blog around editing Interactive Investor, writing scripts for iBall, and a couple of columns for Moneywise.
Just now life, holiday and squeezing the day job into the time around it, is intervening in the smooth flow of blogs.
Please do not disengage! I’ll keep blogging when I can, and I’ll be back at full […]

We’ll fight them on the brown field sites

Judging by the cover of its annual report, there’s little doubt Inland (INL) is at odds with the UK planning system. This bloodthirsty cartoon adorns it, and the enemy (many of them beheaded and disembodied) are councillors.

Inland’s buying up land to sell on with planning permission to property developers, and, as so often happens, its […]

Momentum trumps efficient market

A buy and hold investor touts momentum trading after examing data compiled by Professor Kenneth R French, long-time collaborator of Professor Eugene Fama, architect of the Efficient Market Hypothesis. EMH, in its strictest form, is the theory that states that investors ought not to be able to beat the market using the value effect, the […]

Naked PE recognised

Graeme’s included the Naked PE in his Moneyterms glossary. As I’m a big fan of both, I thought I’d mention it
Keith Anderson, inventor of the Naked PE, publishes a list of the cheapest six stocks on the market every quarter here on the Interactive Investor blog. Here’s the most recent update.

Cussons - the story behind the story

What makes a dull old soap manufacturer worthy of yesterday’s iBall and January’s Stock to Watch column in Moneywise magazine?
From a writer’s perspective, the frustrating thing about TV - even Internet TV - is you can’t get much detail into four minutes. The frustrating thing about magazine columns, especially one the size of mine in […]

Here comes another bubble

via: The Big Picture
Very funny, but is it true?
iBall’s take:

 
This time it’s different; next gen dot.coms are actually making profits. They’re also exclusively American, it seems.
Say it ‘aint so.

Oh my GSH

When I said there’s money in social housing, perhaps I should have extended that to any building. Just like Connaught, GSH (GSH), which maintains somewhat larger buildings (for companies like Tesco, British Airways, and ITV), is on a high.
Unlike Connaught it doesn’ t have nine years of earnings figures we can use as a […]