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Rewind a few weeks and I questioned whether future polyhalite miner Sirius Minerals’ share price was about to fall off a cliff. Last week, it tumbled …

The firm says it uncovered a problem with its 737 Max jets a year before the first fatal crash.

Since the beginning of the year, the FTSE 100, the UK’s leading blue-chip index has been on a tear. The index has jumped from 6,728 on 1 January …

Chinese automaker BYD is now the world’s largest producer of electric vehicles even as Tesla continues to garner most of the attention.

ComStage FTSE 100 UCITS ETF (8H81.DE) shares have seen the Balance of Power trend higher over the past few sessions, indicating potential price …

US trade representative Robert Lighthizer says Beijing has broken promises but a deal is still possible.

Finding the right asset management firm to manage your portfolio may be difficult, but can be a deciding factor in achieving your investment goals.

The husband and wife team who sold their car and home to get their wedding business up and running.

This was despite median levels of chief executive pay in the FTSE 100 reaching £3.9m in 2017 – about 137 times the annual salary of the typical UK …

Rules that let shareholders veto excessive executive pay have failed, new research suggests.

Since its debut in 1968, the Altman Z-Score has been followed religiously by analysts worldwide due to its ease of calculation and relative accuracy at predicting bankruptcies (72% in its initial test). Here at Stockopedia we like to base our indicator…

In this final instalment of the series we’re going to take a look at Robert Merton’s 1974 ‘Distance-to-Default’ method for predicting financial distress. Merton is the often forgotten third player in the Black-Scholes formula (properly called the Black…

Those of you grappling with perhaps the most difficult investing challenge of all, valuation, might be interested to know of a simple formula Benjamin Graham articulated in “The Intelligent Investor” for the valuation of growth stocks. In his words: “O…

In this series of posts we’re exploring some of the alternatives to the 45 year old Altman Z-Score for successfully predicting bankruptcies. So far we’ve looked at the 2010 CHS model which is generally regarded as the best all-round replacement. Today …

The terms bull and bear market are used to describe how stock markets are doing. A bull market is favorable and rises in value, while a bear declines.

The US president says he is raising duties on $200bn of imports, increasing pressure on China.

Good afternoon folks,I can’t see anything of interest in today’s RNS feed, so I’m going to circle back to look at Charles Taylor (LON:CTR), which was requested in the comments yesterday.Charles Taylor (LON:CTR)Share price: 243,25p
No. shares: 67.4mMa…

Berkshire Hathaway’s marathon 2019 annual meeting, presided over by Warren Buffett, is now history. Here are some key things that emerged from it.

According to some pundits, the unemployment rate can be too low. Read on to find out why they think so.

Bitcoin, unlike traditional careers, has created millionaires from all walks of life, from serial entrepreneurs to former Olympic athletes.

Foreign investors have several ways to tap into China’s booming economy via exchange-traded funds.

DB X-Trackers Dbx FTSE 100 Shor (XUKS.L)’s Stochastic Momentum Index is cruising higher and has passed the key level of +40, indicating possible …

Needle moving action has been spotted in DB X-Trackers Dbx FTSE 100 Shor (XUKS.L) as shares are moving today on volatility -0.87% or -3.39 from …

Xtrackers FTSE 100 Short Daily Swap UCITS ETF 1C (DX2K.DE) has traders on alert as the Balance of Power signal has continued a strong upward …

While many investors may wish to gain exposure to the UK’s property market at the present time, doing so via the FTSE 100 could be a better idea than …

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett says he is eyeing UK assets “no matter how Brexit turns out”.

Dow Jones Price Outlook: Neutral. Compared to last week, the week ahead should provide relative calm for US equities. The Dow Jones remains …

While the FTSE 100 may have made strong gains in recent months, there are still a number of stocks that offer income returns of over 5%. As such …

When I look at my Stocks and Shares ISA portfolio of investment funds it is a sea of blue, which is my favourite colour because this means they’re all in …

A FTSE 100 tracker will give you exposure to the top 100 public companies listed in the UK at the click of a button. Also, at the time of writing, the index …