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Emerging markets: semiconductor price hikes, South Korea 'value up' and geopolitical tensions
Thursday 25 Jul 20241. Semiconductor price hikes: The world’s leading semiconductor company hinted at a possible price hike. One of its biggest clients, a semiconductor chip design company at the forefront of the artificial intelligence boom, is supportive of the price increase. This could also benefit the bottom line...
Three ways to buy tech
Thursday 25 Jul 2024Pretty much all investors are tech investors. Whether you like the space or not, it is almost impossible to avoid owning exposure to the technology sector. More than a few analysts have referred to tech as a utility, as vital to modern everyday life as water, electricity, steel, and oil. For...
Revealed: the pros and cons of active and passive management
Thursday 18 Jul 2024A major development in retail investing in recent years is the increased availability of vehicles which simply look to track the performance of a market. Thanks to their low cost, these passive funds have proved very popular and drawn money away from actively managed funds, where a professional...
A Melrose by any other name should smell just as sweet
Thursday 18 Jul 2024Hot on the heels of the UK election and the float of Raspberry Pi (RPI) comes another highly-anticipated UK IPO (initial public offering), this time on AIM. Rosebank Industries (ROSE:AIM) placed 20 million shares at 250p last week raising £50 million, yet as it stands the company has no assets,...
UK's hottest funds: Is their popularity deserved?
Thursday 18 Jul 2024Funds can often be in vogue with investors thanks to a big-name manager or a past reputation, but just how well-earned is the popularity of the UK’s most popular funds and investment trusts? In this article we’ve taken a look at the performance of a select group of funds which regularly feature...
Is the US consumer finally tapped out?
Thursday 11 Jul 2024Consumer confidence in the US eased in June as shoppers stateside fretted over the economic outlook, with The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index dipping to 100.4 from a downwardly revised 101.3 in May. This downbeat reading (25 June) came hot on the heels of news retail sales (18 June)...
Small World: a look at some of the lesser-known stocks and stories of the last month
Thursday 11 Jul 2024With Raspberry Pi (RPI) trading at a healthy premium to its IPO (initial public offer) price UK technology seems to be in the ascendancy, so it was pleasing to see computer product maker Concurrent Technologies (CNC:AIM) announce its largest-ever contract last month. The firm, which makes mission-...
Stocks left behind in the AI surge
Thursday 11 Jul 2024As US markets wound down ahead of the 4 July Independence Day holiday, the Nasdaq Composite closed at a new all-time high. A record 18,188.30 level was hit as investors shrugged off meek economic data and fed the technology rally that has run all year. It was the 17th time the index had broken...
Tracking down UK mid cap stars
Thursday 04 Jul 2024Now the ballots have been cast at the general election, the UK could become the ‘reassuringly boring’ market, both politically and fiscally, when compared to the more extreme politics on the other side of the English Channel and Atlantic Ocean. So suggests Jean Roche, manager of the Schroder UK Mid...
What are company dealing accounts and how can they be used?
Thursday 04 Jul 2024Lots of limited companies will have money sitting on their balance sheet which, given the returns from cash have historically lagged inflation, is being gradually eroded by rising prices. If this is genuinely surplus cash and not needed for the day-to-day running of the business, a potential remedy...