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Magazine - 09 Jan 2014

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Chartist

Chartist: Barratt Developments

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Director detective data

Fixed-Income Focus

FTSE 100: Bonds are a further option

It is possible to buy and sell the debt as well as the equity of corporate giants

Plays

Chartist

How to understand charts: W waves

This week: Watch for W waves as prelude to great trades

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The Best & Worst Performers

Funds

FTSE 100: Take the collective approach

Investors looking for broad exposure to blue-chip names are spoiled for choice

Chartist

Chartist: FTSE 100

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FTSE 100: Cyclicals

Builders’ merchant is geared into ongoing UK economic upturn

News

News in brief

Under The Bonnet

FTSE 100: Trust in the tobacco titans

Cigarette giants can overcome volume declines and regulatory creep

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FTSE 100: Unloved names

Utility offers prospect of dividend increases and potential rerating

News

Tune into rich channel

Internet retailers are set to positively surprise with festive updates

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FTSE 100: Value

Free cashflow yield work suggests big miner could be cheap

News

APR has large overhang

Active selling by the boss is depressing the share price

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FTSE 100: Lesser lights

Newcomer is a play on the Eastern European soft drinks market

News

Dialight is ready to shine

Industrial demand to underscore firm’s growth potential

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FTSE 100: Defensives

Defensives still look expensive but with good reason in some cases

News

Chart of the week: Power up with IQE

Solar panel growth is set to benefit Welsh chip designer

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FTSE 100: Interest-rate sensitives

Rising rates to rouse insurers

News

Action to capitalise on market gap

Hotelier brings Middle Eastern flavour to well-known brands

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FTSE 100: Dividend growth

Increased shareholder distributions historically drive capital gains too

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FTSE 100: Income

Beat the bank with the FTSE 100

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FTSE 100: Momentum

Shop at Sainsbury's: Grocery giant continues to beat analysts’ forecasts

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FTSE 100: Growth

ARM has the muscle

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Preview: US non-farm payrolls

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Mondi is no house of cards

Executive sale should not prompt others to also divest stock

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Preview: Barratt Developments

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Euro is ready for key test

Challenge to Fibonacci retracement mark at $1.3834 will set market tone

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Preview: Countrywide

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Aussie dollar to turn lower

Market complacency flags danger of sudden move to risk-off sentiment

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Letters: Metal magic

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Listen to the market

Sector analysis can help throw up good stock ideas to research

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Vertu is motoring ahead

Director purchases could further fuel investor faith in stock

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Follow the market

A simple but effective strategy to trade breaking news

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Tune into Immedia’s profit potential

Marketing services tiddler is poised to report return to the black

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Omega ready to pass tests

HIV monitoring kit moves closer to field trials

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Fusionex makes giant strides

Big data angle offers huge growth potential

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FTSE 100: Sky and BT slug it out

Football field becomes key arena in broadcast battle

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Conviviality Retail to raise spirits

Strong brands and secular trends to buoy discount booze seller

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Make a splash with Norcros

Bathroom fit-out specialist is set to ride UK recovery

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Amara is as good as gold

Gold miner needs to cut capex and show economic viability of growth projects

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Traders' Toolkit: Social Trading

Information flow and sentiment gauges are useful additions to the trader’s toolkit

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FTSE 100: Miners set stage for recovery

Streamlining efforts should results in greater cashflow and higher dividends

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Taxed by policy response

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Letters: Portfolio pick is in the pink

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FTSE 100: Big names, big gains

The FTSE 100 is one of the globe’s best-known stock market indices and since it represents more than 80% of the UK market cap, investors need to be very familiar with what it has to offer. In a special issue dedicated to the benchmark on its thirtieth anniversary, Russ Mould and the Shares team take a look at how it is made up and assess the issues and themes that are likely to dominate in the year ahead.

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FTSE 100: Oil giants struggle to please

Potential rewards from hydrocarbon producers do not compensate for the risks

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