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Pacific Gas and Energy plans bankruptcy protection move after wildfires spark mass liabilities.

The FTSE 100 in Britain declined 0.9 percent to 6,859. Wall Street looked set for a downbeat start to the week with Dow futures and the broader S&P …

The Money Flow Index of FTSE 100 Minimum Variance Index (UKXMV.L) this week has place the shares on the radar as it nears the key 20 or 30 level …

The FTSE 100 index of large caps was down 71.56 points, or 1.0%, at 6,846.62 while the FTSE 250 180.55 points lower, or 1.0%, at 18,361.76.

… PLC said Monday that it will commence the pre-letting of 30 Lombard Street, an office building in the City of London, to FTSE 100 wealth manager St …

London markets fell on Monday, a day ahead of the crucial U.K. parliamentary vote over Prime Minister Theresa May’s divisive agreement for Britain’s …

The U.K.’s FTSE 100 UKX, -1.01% fell 1% to 6,851.34, after finishing up 1.2% on Friday. The British pound was indecisive on Monday, as it struggled …

In Brief
NCAV investing is a bargain investing strategy involving buying stocks when they are selling for less than you’re likely to receive even in the harshest firesale of its assets. 
Background
Benjamin Graham was the tutor of Warren Buffett and th…

One of the most widely studied and persistent stock market inefficiencies ever identified is the “accrual anomaly”. It was first documented by Richard Sloan of the University of Michigan in 1996 whose ground-breaking paper found that shares in companie…

In Brief 
A recommendation level screen would focus on buying the most recommended stocks in the market based on the broker consensus. This is to be contrasted with a screen that focuses on those stocks most recently upgraded – a ‘recommendation revisi…

In BriefA momentum screen based on buying stocks with rising analyst earnings estimate revisions in light of empirical findings that stocks with their estimates revised often outperform the market over at least the next 12 months.BackgroundEarnings est…

Do “bubble” stocks (those with high shorting demand and small borrowing supply) exhibit unconventional momentum behaviors? In their December 2018 paper entitled “Overconfidence, Information Diffusion, and Mispricing Persistence”…

2015 turned out to be a year of very mixed fortunes for UK investors. A sluggish performance by the blue chip FTSE 100 index – down by around 4.5% – told a tale of depressed commodity sectors and sliding prices at giants like Pearson, Standard Chartere…

We regularly get emails from users asking us whether the successful European StockRanks have been backtested further than their June 2013 start date. While we don’t yet have the point in time data to do this internally, we can gain insights into past p…

It has taken nine months, but the UK stock market has now completed its long, slow grind into official bear market territory. From a peak last April, the FTSE 100 is down around 22%. The shocks started last August when the main index fell by more than …

Regardless of what the marketing departments at some major fund management firms might like you to think, the concept of ‘factor’ investing has been around for decades. The characteristics of Quality, Value and Momentum have long been credited as a sou…

As market volatility picks up, outperforming fund manager Kyle Weaver describes three of his favorite stocks.

Both exports and imports fell last month, but the trade surplus with the US hit a record high in 2018.

As Argentina remains mired in economic crisis it is a difficult place to do business, but one firm shows that success is possible.

As Argentina remains mired in economic crisis it is a difficult place to do business, but one firm shows that success is possible.

Morning all!
Avingtrans ( £AVG ) – 188p – £58m – PER 15.3

Trading Update For H1 – In-line with market expectations.

I will keep an eye out for actuals here and hopefully profitability.

Boku Inc ( £BOKU ) – 82p – £184m – PER 139.2

Trading Up…

A car dashboard that can display directions and points of interest as holograms has been developed.

The airline will honour tickets mistakenly sold from $1,512 not $16,000 in its latest fare fumble.

The lengthy detention of executive Carlos Ghosn has drawn some criticism of Japan’s justice system.

Founder of ecological shoe brand Allbirds, Joey Zwillinger, says he treats his business partnership like his marriage.

The Argentine boss who travelled the world to get orders and prevent him from having to make staff redundant.

Government nuclear policy is under scrutiny amid reports the Japanese firm may scrap a £20bn reactor.

Computer-driven investment funds are now short sellers of virtually every asset class, an ominous portent for the markets.

While it would not be completely unexpected, a failure could deal a blow to both the FTSE 100 and the GBP. The latter of which could soften the impact …

Readers, who pressed for the change, can compost or put the new packaging in their food waste bin.