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  2. Magazine - 09 Jan 2014

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Feature

  • Director detective data

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  • The Best & Worst Performers

Chartist

  • Chartist: Barratt Developments

Feature

  • FTSE 100: Cyclicals

    Builders’ merchant is geared into ongoing UK economic upturn

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  • FTSE 100: Unloved names

    Utility offers prospect of dividend increases and potential rerating

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  • FTSE 100: Value

    Free cashflow yield work suggests big miner could be cheap

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  • FTSE 100: Lesser lights

    Newcomer is a play on the Eastern European soft drinks market

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  • FTSE 100: Defensives

    Defensives still look expensive but with good reason in some cases

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  • FTSE 100: Interest-rate sensitives

    Rising rates to rouse insurers

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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

Feature

  • FTSE 100: Growth

    ARM has the muscle

News

  • News in brief

Plays

  • Plays update: International Personal Finance

Plays

  • Plays update: Costain

Feature

  • Preview: US non-farm payrolls

Plays

  • Data drives Telecity

    Shareholder rewards should rise as firm matures

Feature

  • 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

Feature

  • Preview: Countrywide

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  • Aussie dollar to turn lower

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

Plays

  • CareTech looks confident

    Social care provider positioned to meet strong demand

Plays

  • Plays update: Incadea

News

  • Tune into rich channel

    Internet retailers are set to positively surprise with festive updates

News

  • APR has large overhang

    Active selling by the boss is depressing the share price

Feature

  • Letters: Metal magic

News

  • Dialight is ready to shine

    Industrial demand to underscore firm’s growth potential

News

  • Chart of the week: Power up with IQE

    Solar panel growth is set to benefit Welsh chip designer

News

  • Action to capitalise on market gap

    Hotelier brings Middle Eastern flavour to well-known brands

Feature

  • Listen to the market

    Sector analysis can help throw up good stock ideas to research

Feature

  • Vertu is motoring ahead

    Director purchases could further fuel investor faith in stock

Chartist

  • How to understand charts: W waves

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

Chartist

  • Chartist: FTSE 100

Feature

  • Follow the market

    A simple but effective strategy to trade breaking news

Feature

  • Tune into Immedia’s profit potential

    Marketing services tiddler is poised to report return to the black

Feature

  • Omega ready to pass tests

    HIV monitoring kit moves closer to field trials

Feature

  • Fusionex makes giant strides

    Big data angle offers huge growth potential

Feature

  • FTSE 100: Sky and BT slug it out

    Football field becomes key arena in broadcast battle

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

Feature

  • Conviviality Retail to raise spirits

    Strong brands and secular trends to buoy discount booze seller

Feature

  • Make a splash with Norcros

    Bathroom fit-out specialist is set to ride UK recovery

Feature

  • Amara is as good as gold

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

Funds

  • FTSE 100: Take the collective approach

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

Feature

  • Traders’ Toolkit: Social Trading

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

Feature

  • FTSE 100: Miners set stage for recovery

    Streamlining efforts should results in greater cashflow and higher dividends

Feature

  • Taxed by policy response

Feature

  • Letters: Portfolio pick is in the pink

Under The Bonnet

  • FTSE 100: Trust in the tobacco titans

    Cigarette giants can overcome volume declines and regulatory creep

Feature

  • 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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