Category: Business

Fear and Greed and Grouse

Today (Friday) grouse shooting starts and the FTSE 100 index has risen above 6900. It is up 14% this year. It’s nice to feel a bit less poor but is this a bubble that will burst when Brexit bites?

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A Pug Called Sherbet

When looking at shares to buy the focus here has been to a large extent on dividends, as many of us have to live on the divis. Today, let’s look at a company that yields only about 0.8% but aims to deliver capital growth.

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What’s Cooking?

  The UK stock market has been doing much better than I expected in the aftermath of Brexit. However, it is early days in an economic narrative that will unfold over many years. Here is an update on something which is playing out more rapidly.

Unpaid Workers

Politicians try to endear themselves to the electorate, in a democracy, by promising to crack-down on something that they think will please voters. Theresa May is no exception. She opened the batting with a call for workers to be represented in the boardroom and for curbs on directors’ pay. Admirable sentiments that remind me of… Continue reading Unpaid Workers

ARM Wrestling

ARM Holdings is a UK high-tech company founded in Cambridge about twenty-five years ago. They design widgets, tiny widgets, called microchips, even smaller than the ones we eat when dieting. Some readers have been shareholders, not me. I couldn’t because it broke two of my investment rules: I didn’t understand their business model and the… Continue reading ARM Wrestling

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Ginger & Pickles

The Tale of Ginger & Pickles by Beatrix Potter is an indispensable Economics text book. The late Duchess of Devonshire thought so and I concur. It is our misfortune that our Chancellors of the Exchequer have either not read it or ignored its message.

How Many Egg Baskets?

I strongly believe in simplifying things but not putting all your eggs in one basket is a wise adage, as I found out today, that’s yesterday you-time.

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£48.79

We are going to hear a lot about trade tariffs. For now,  I just have this contribution to the debate.

Black Hole

I confess, I was in shock on Friday morning. Now I can see clearly at least one consequence of Brexit which is unavoidable.