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Magazine - 06 Feb 2014

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Letters: First-class performance

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Letters: Thoughts on Glencore

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Letters: Pharma funds

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The Best & Worst Performers - FTSE 350, Markets, Commodities, Forex, Sovereign Yields

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Director dealings: Essential data & Top trades

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FTSE 250: Investment Trusts

Show trust in Caledonia Investments’ strategy

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FTSE 250: Best of British

Greene King can rule in 2014

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FTSE 250: Value

Seek out big returns with Micro Focus

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FTSE 250: Momentum

Show some Imagination

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FTSE 250: Income

KCOM’s dividend delights

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FTSE 250: Growth

Petra to make portfolios sparkle

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Letters: Going up a level

News

News in brief: Acal, Aminex, Lloyds Banking, Angle, Oilex, KCOM

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Letters: Disappointing call

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Avoid overheated Cook

Travel operator’s share price has got ahead of itself

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Learn to love RM

Restructuring plans could spark rerating at education specialist

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Stat of the week: Insure against sector losses

A run of unseasonable weather bodes ill ahead of reporting season

Plays

Box clever with Smurfit

Momentum at packaging expert set to continue

Plays

Plays update: Hayward Tyler

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Cut Kazakhmys quickly

Miner needs to provide answers to debt and cost issues

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Preview: AMEC

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Chart of the Week: Engineer a profit with IMI

Metal basher should benefit from external and internal drivers

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Preview: Morgan Advanced Materials

Plays

Use Sprue to fire returns

Smoke alarms manufacturer set to benefit from migration to Aim

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Plays update: Mobile Streams

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Plays update: Advanced Computer Software

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Aussie dollar set to stall

Poor sentiment is likely to weigh on antipodean counter

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Greenback to keep giving

Encouraging unemployment numbers are set to provide currency boost

Under The Bonnet

Go with NewRiver flow

Real Estate Investment Trust’s premium yield represents a bargain

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Get to the core of Apple

Inventory bulge may help explain lowly rating

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Build a position in Helical

Property play set to splash war chest to boost portfolio

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Strike it rich with Europa

CEO increases exposure as company gears up for high-impact drilling

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Tune into One Media

Music rights business is set for YouTube hit

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Aim high with CloudBuy

Enterprise commerce platform has profit potential

Fixed-Income Focus

Yield to mid-cap bonds

Investors in the space might be better off focussing on the primary market

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Raise a glass to Wetherspoon

Pubs operator shrugs off concerns about falling margins

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Feast on overcooked Finsbury

Resilient cake and bread maker remains a value find

Funds

Warm to solar

Fund could be a bright portfolio prospect and act as an inflation hedge

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Letters: Hard times

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Gravitate to golden Orbis

Exploration success warrants further investigation despite overseas listing

Chartist

Chartist: British American Tobacco

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Chartist: BSE Sensex

Chartist

How to understand charts: PVI, NVI

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Dig the vanadium game

Metal could become trendy as market drivers heat up

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Profit with Parkmead

North Sea explorer is trading at big discount to its assets

Fight For Your Rights

Democratic deficit

Survey suggests nominee account system undermines shareholders’ rights

Fight For Your Rights

Vote for change

Buy-to-let property lender will be ‘say on pay’ test case

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Why small is beautiful

It is not too late to tap into the potential lower down the market-cap rankings

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The Perfect Portfolio, part 4: Understanding asset correlations

In the fourth and final part of our portfolio planning series Simon Keane looks at how a short-term investor can use collectives to build a safety-first book

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CFDs: Derivative delights

Contracts for difference allow traders to take leveraged exposure

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FTSE 250: Mid Cap Marvels

The FTSE 250 index continues to leave the behemoths of the FTSE 100 in its wake. Analysis of its profit and dividend payment mix even suggests the growth, risk and quality profile of its constituents is superior to that of its bigger, more famous cousin. Russ Mould investigates.

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Preview: Avon Rubber

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Letters: Where’s IGas?

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Letters: Small is beautiful

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Letters: Opportunity pipeline

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Letters: Decision time for GVC

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Letters: Warming to the Griller