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The emerging markets technology story
Thursday 28 May 2020While we often associate technological innovation with Silicon Valley in the US, emerging markets tech firms are starting to challenge their rivals in the West. According to the latest data, information technology is the second largest sector on the MSCI Emerging Markets index after financials,...
The full list of London-listed stocks maintaining dividends
Thursday 21 May 2020Since the middle of March almost half of the companies in the FTSE 100 have suspended or cut altogether their final 2019 and full year 2020 dividends. So far just 26 companies in the FTSE have not changed their plans to pay dividends. The names are published in this article alongside all the...
Dividend delight: the stocks and funds still paying investors a decent income
Thursday 21 May 2020Income is a big motivating factor for people to invest in the markets. The idea of securing a regular stream of cash which can be used to pay the bills or reinvested to help boost capital returns is an attractive one. However, this income is not guaranteed and the last two months or so of dividend...
The small cap biotech stocks making 200%+ returns this year
Thursday 21 May 2020UK biotechnology shares have provided some of the best returns in the market over the last six months, driven by a plethora of regulatory news about new products aimed at tackling coronavirus. Shareholders are rightly asking whether the strong share price performances have gone too far in relation...
Seven stocks for life after coronavirus
Thursday 14 May 2020There are flickers of light at the end of a very long tunnel. Doctors are learning more about Covid-19 every day; how it spreads, which treatments are showing promise, and how to create effective testing methods. Inevitably, after being cooped up during many weeks of lockdown, restrictions are...
Growing backlash against Rightmove could be bad for its share price
Thursday 14 May 2020Once a darling of the stock market, property listings site Rightmove ( RMV ) is losing friends and making enemies. Grumbling among its estate agent clients has exploded into mounting dissent following the company’s apparent tone deaf response to the coronavirus crisis. Despite its strong balance...
Which companies are ‘having a good crisis’?
Thursday 14 May 2020While no firm wants to be seen publicly to be ‘having a good crisis’, given the gravity of the threat to the economy and public health from coronavirus, the fact is some firms are doing rather well despite, or in some cases as a result of, the pandemic. Some have been in the right place at the...
Should we be worried about food security?
Thursday 07 May 2020Food prices are likely to go up as a result of pressure on the food supply chain linked to the coronavirus pandemic. Companies who can get food products to the consumer, either manufacturers supplying retailers or supermarkets being able to provide adequate stocks, could be winners from an...
The big comeback: markets have rallied, so what about the economy?
Thursday 07 May 2020In news reports covering the stock markets, certain phrases seems to be repeated more than anything else: ‘the FTSE rises despite…’, ‘the S&P surges despite…’. There is a whole range of bad economic data to finish those sentences, and yet after hitting a low on 23 March markets have bounced...
What does a rapid build-up of debt mean for economic growth?
Thursday 07 May 2020According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the total cumulative amount of global liquidity injections, in the form of government spending packages and central bank stimulus measures, adds up to a whopping $14trn. This represents around 17% of the value of global gross domestic product ( GDP...