Category: Business

A Hundred Years Young

I went to a very enjoyable lunch party at the Turf Club last week. My host encouragingly said that it would not be a short one and this proved correct. After some sluicing and slurping in an outer room at lunch I sat between two strangers.

Schweppes Switch

There is so much to get irritated about that it’s a wonder I have time for anything else. The latest annoyance is the repackaging of tonic water and soda water into similar looking black cans. Inadvertently pouring a gin and soda is jolly cross-making, although disaster can be averted by lacing it with lime cordial.

Back to Business

On Sunday I shared with you a bit about microbeads. This was something I had to read up on from scratch and my information came from research published on the Pacific Assets Trust website.

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What Brexit Means, Everything You Need to Know

The CEO of Rolls-Royce made a fleeting appearance here a few months ago and was dubbed a Super Good Egg. The news spread (not far) and I’ve heard his wife sometimes calls him an SGE. Well, I like to keep an eye on SGEs to make sure they are staying up to the mark.

An Environmental Perspective

Thirty or so years ago I would throw rubbish like empty beer cans into the sea and leave spent cartridge cases on the ground. I was not unusual but now things are different.

Sweet Afton

I bought some shares in an investment trust last week and yesterday was writing up the trade. Idly turning back the pages I took a look at my first entry.

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.