Those astute enough to have a sliver of their investment portfolio exposed to gold have enjoyed some outstanding returns over the past year. It’s an asset that has truly lived up to the maxim: ‘worth its weight in gold’. Over the past 12 months, its price has reached a series of all-time highs as a … Read more
Walk into any branch of Boots and chances are that the pharmacy’s own-brand anti-viral hand foam will be on prominent display. Hand sanitiser is today’s must-have item, products are flying off the shelves and Boots is still limiting sales because of high demand. All hand-cleansers are not created equal, however. Many only work for a … Read more
MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Our games tip Codemasters rises 42% in seven months By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:59 BST, 15 August 2020 | Updated: 21:59 BST, 15 August 2020 Video game specialist Codemasters is another British company to have defied the prevailing economic gloom. Best known for its F1 series, Codemasters … Read more
If you are one of the many investors who need an income, prepare for a little good news. A few big name firms have resumed paying dividends, and there are some generous yields on offer. This will come as a relief to those who feared that the dividend drought created by Covid-19 could become a … Read more
ICG ENTERPRISE TRUST: Focusing on the ‘buy out’ market with 50% invested in funds and 50% in individual firms By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 14 August 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 14 August 2020 What is it? A private equity trust that has a mix of its own investments in … Read more
PUNT OF THE WEEK: Uranium oxide supplier Yellow Cake buys back shares as prices for the nuclear fuel rise By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 14 August 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 14 August 2020 What is it? An AIM-quoted company which holds uranium oxide and supplies it from a Canadian … Read more
7digital Group was the top riser this week, rocketing 143 per cent to 1p on the back of a contract with US video platform Triller. The digital music company’s catalogue of more than 80million tracks will be available to Triller users when editing videos. Triller has been on the news lately as it could potentially … Read more
Sparkling rewards for gold buyers: The pandemic has sparked a rush on precious metals… but is it too late to cash in? By Ben Wilkinson for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 11 August 2020 | Updated: 22:47 BST, 11 August 2020 Gold has always been seen as a safe bet in times of crisis, … Read more
Last December, the chief executive of the peer-to-peer lending platform RateSetter, Rhydian Lewis, described new rules designed to better protect casual investors in the sector as ‘a Darwinian process… that will lead to a stronger industry’. But just eight months later Lewis’ platform, one of Britain’s ‘big three’ in peer-to-peer investing, announced it had been … Read more
SMALL CAP SHARE IDEAS: Analytics firm Rosslyn Data Technologies is a Covid-resistant investment primed for take-off By Ian Lyall, Proactive Investors, For This Is Money Published: 15:06 BST, 10 August 2020 | Updated: 15:06 BST, 10 August 2020 A company’s share price is supposed to be a forward indicator of what is likely to occur … Read more