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The gold price has hit record highs in several currencies in recent days, including the pound, Canadian dollar, South African rand, and Australian dollar. It has also recovered much of the ground lost in US dollar terms when investors sold heavily to cover losses elsewhere in the market. That selling is now abating, and the … Read more
SCOTTISH INVESTMENT TRUST: The manager who ditched consumer stocks and went on the defensive with gold shares as crisis bit By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 22:56 BST, 28 March 2020 | Updated: 10:44 BST, 29 March 2020 Although manager Alasdair McKinnon was relatively quick off the mark in turning the portfolio of … Read more
Coronavirus has brought economies to a standstill, sent financial markets into shock and panicked investors far and wide. Massive government intervention provided some respite for equities last week but stocks are still around a third lower than at the start of the year and dividends are increasingly under threat, too. Midas recommendations have shared the … Read more
PUNT OF THE WEEK: Lok’n’Store is one of the UK’s biggest self-storage groups with more than 30 sites By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 27 March 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 27 March 2020 WHAT IS IT? Lok’n’Store is one of the UK’s biggest self-storage groups with more than 30 sites, most … Read more
Family, friends and colleagues, separated by the lockdown, are often ending video chat sessions with the phrases, ‘Stay well!’ and ‘See you on the other side.’ We are all wondering how life will look when we do meet again, trying to assess the impact on relationships, businesses and the economy. The stock market rally earlier … Read more
MONTANARO UK SMALLER COMPANIES: Industry veteran Charles Montanaro seeks to outperform rival Numis By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 27 March 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 27 March 2020 WHAT IS IT? Run by Charles Montanaro, an industry veteran, its goal is to outperform the Numis Smaller Companies Index. WHAT DOES THE … Read more
‘At these prices there are really interesting opportunities’: Investment guru Anthony Bolton says he has started buying shares again Bolton said investors should not ‘get more bearish as the market goes down’ He gave up fund management in 2014 to focus on music and philanthropy The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko opera is set … Read more
Genedrive shot up more than 150 per cent this week after it said it could ‘quickly’ ramp up production of its coronavirus test. The diagnostics firm has been discussing with suppliers its plans to increase output to 10,000 new kits per hour. This would make the product ‘a material revenue generator for the company and … Read more
Collectors and investors appear to have flocked to gold coins as a safe haven buy amid stock market turbulence caused by coronavirus, with some at a behind closed doors auction this week selling for triple their estimate. More than 500 lots of coins dating from the Iron Age all the way through to 2008 went … Read more
Investors watching in horror as the value of their pensions and investments plummet will be wondering what on earth to do. Here, Money Mail has asked eight influential experts who have invested through previous crashes to share their top tips on surviving the coronavirus pandemic-hit stock market. Investors watching in horror as the value of … Read more