Articles in the Stocks and Shares Category
This Is Money: Market Report: Thursday Close
September 14th, 2006
News of the bid approach for the old Anglian water utility AWG gave the market a morning boost, but gains quickly ebbedYesterday’s Trading: Read Geoff Foster’s report
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Motley Fool: Diageo Delivers
August 31st, 2006
I wrote in June that Diageo (LSE: DGE) was “a share to help you sleep soundly” and I haven’t changed my mind after today’s annual results.
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Motley Fool: Learning Lessons From Fayrewood
August 24th, 2006
Fayrewood (LSE: FWY), a smallcap IT distributor, has built up a strong following on The Fool’s discussion boards over the last three or four years, but, sadly, I fear that at least some of our posters have lost money from the share.
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Motley Fool: Trading The Meme Market
August 24th, 2006
Memes roll across society. They take hold of the population, hollowing out people’s brains making them do things they wouldn’t normally - just like “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”.
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Motley Fool: The Biggest Of The Big
August 23rd, 2006
Continuing my superlatives title theme from last week, I’m taking here a look at the very largest company by market capitalisation, BP (LSE: BP). BP has a cap of around £122bn, somewhat ahead of second placed HSBC (LSE: HSBA) on £109bn and substantially in front of third placed Glaxosmithkline (LSE: …
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Motley Fool: Does It Pay To Be A Goody Two Shoes?
August 22nd, 2006
“Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.” Groucho Marx
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Motley Fool: Persimmon And Other Housebuilders Look Cheap
August 22nd, 2006
Discussions of a possible house price crash have been heated on the Fool discussion boards. So far though, the crash hasn’t materialised.
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Which Shares Will Benefit From Global Warming?
August 2nd, 2006
The recent hot weather got me thinking about which shares would be a good long term bet, based on the notion that we will experience more and more periods of high temperatures.
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10 Investment Tips
August 1st, 2006
The Scotsman has published 10 investment tips “you can bank on”.
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Standard Life Shares Stock Market Debut
July 10th, 2006
After all our talk about the Standard Life demutualistation and floatation, shares in Standard Life finally floated on the London Stock Exchange this morning.
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