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Opportunities to write stories like this one do not come along every day, so when an AIM listed stock like Plethora Solutions (LSE:PLE) rises to the occasion by leading the FTSE 250 with a 30% increase to 11.75, we should take a long, hard look to see what is going on and how long the […]

Is this cyberspace week or what? First we learned that Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) has acquired TechCrunch. The next day we discovered that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is acquiring Auction.com. Now, for the third day in a row, another high-profile internet company has announced, not only a new acquisition, but a radical change it’s interface relationships. The share price […]

The share price of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is, at this very moment, up $6.78 and $1,221.69.  That’s an increase of 0.59%. One year ago, 05 March 2013, that would have represented an increase of 0.81% as the share price was at 838.60. In case you have not followed the Google charts lately, the search engine has […]

Two years ago everyone was atwitter over the impending Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) IPO that eventually consummated on 18 May 2012. Given the train wreck of that fiasco, Facebook continued to capture headlines for several months. People who had invested were falling all over themselves trying to ditch the shares they had acquired at the $38.00 asking […]

GlaxoSmithKline (LSE:GSK) may be one of the most interesting stocks to watch on the London Stock Exchange. It has certainly endured its fair share of bumps and bruises of late, especially with the scandals in China generating publicity and causing a loss of revenues in country. Yesterday GSK released its annual report for the year […]

The headlines are ablaze this morning perpetuating a rumor that RBS (LSE:RBS) will announce next Thursday (27 February) that it will be slashing 30,000 jobs. I initially ignored the hype as a basis for a story today for three reasons: It’s still only a rumor The rumor is spreading like wildfire I’ve got one eye […]

In a story immediately preceding this one, my colleague, Thierry LaDuguie, wrote about “Emotional Trading – The Enemy of Trading.” Ironically, two US companies made the headlines and watched as investors appeared to react in exactly the manner that Thierry warned against. The share price of Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) skyrocketed to record heights whilst the […]

It was just a few days ago (12 February) that I wrote about the potential impact of the allegedly declining unemployment rate in the U.S. in a story entitled “Beware of Bullard’s Bubble Bulletin.” In a nutshell, Bullard, the President of the St. Louis Fed had expressed his concern that the Federal Reserve Bank may […]

As companies go, Clean Air Power (LSE:CAP) is nowhere near being a dominant world force. With a market cap of just under £20 million and five consecutive years of losses, it’s not a not a company that has been able to spark a great deal of investor interest. However, the Clean Air share price climbed more […]

The petroleum sector is, almost without debate, the single largest economic and political force in the world. Petroleum can used to leverage peace and prosperity, but it can also be used to dictate power and to decimate entire economies and political entities. Which raises my personal concern over how President Obama will use the current […]