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Magazine - 08 May 2014

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The Best & Worst Performers: Markets, Commodities, Forex, Sovereign Yields

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Director dealings: Top buys and sells

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Small Cap Best & Worst Performers table

News

News in brief: Galliford Try, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling, Mondi, Canadian Overseas Petroleum, Daily Internet, Fox Marble

Plays

Plays Update: N Brown

Plays

Plays update: Earthport

Plays

Boot is a good fit

Construction recovery puts house builder in prime position

News

Devro to keep sizzling

Sell-off at sausage skins maker presents buying opportunity

News

Travel firms’ holiday uplift

Rising consumer confidence augurs well for TUI and Thomas Cook

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Preview: Petrofac

News

Falcon poised for flight

Farm-out is first step to unlock value in company’s asset base

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Cash trumps fund flows

Tokyo government’s attempt to bend free markets to its will should be scorned

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Sterling can keep surprising

Red-hot UK housing market to bring forward rate-rise expectations

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Euro bulls to keep running

Portugal’s emergence from bail-out further stokes appetite for eurozone debt

News

EMIS plugged into digital health

NHS software supplier poised for overdue re-rating

Plays

Plays update: RM2 International

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Preview: Speedy Hire

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Preview: MoPowered

News

InterContinental cash machine

Hotel giant is set to continue the special dividend theme

Plays

St Ives’ healthy move

Small cap strengthens exposure to hot marketing sectors

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How to play the UK recovery

Small and mid-cap names are likely to do best in the current environment

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Xeros trio buy after float

Directors waste no time in buying stock in newly-listed washing machine group

Chartist

Chartist: TalkTalk Telecom

Chartist

Chartist: Hang Seng

Chartist

How to understand charts: ZigZag

You can ZigZag to spot key levels of support and resistance

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Thorntons tempts anew

Buying by directors demonstrates faith in chocolatier’s turnaround

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Avation set for take-off

Global growth trends are creating a sweet spot for aircraft lease specialist

Under The Bonnet

Satellite operator burns cash

Avanti still has to prove business model will deliver long-run cash generation

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Utilitywise accelerates growth

Expansion plans broaden geographical exposure at energy consultant

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Churchill’s cracking prospects

Ceramics manufacturer to deliver statesmanlike profits progress

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Remain steely on International Ferro

Investors should look past miner’s weak quarterly numbers

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Big caps set to outperform

Sector rotation suggests tactical opportunity to take FTSE 100 exposure

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Oil sector to enjoy bid bonanza

FirstEnergy highlights possible targets as M&A activity heats up

Fight For Your Rights

Activists focus their energy

Meetings to decide fate of management at oil and gas duo Wessex and Petroneft

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Trusted value opportunities

Bargains remain despite tightening of investment trust sector discounts

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Manx issues income call

Isle of Man telecoms monopoly more than a classic yield stock

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Letters: Quindell’s legal eagles

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Portfolio power: How to build your own Isa

Small regular investments can build into sizeable portfolios over time finds Dan Coatsworth, who unearths a slew of collectives to hold for the long term

Sector Reports

Losing altitude

Aerospace & defence sector to continue descent given lack of catalysts to prompt reappraisal

Funds

Bell gets ahead of curve

Money manager believes mega-caps could be due a catch up

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Get ready for the invasion: Part I

In the first of a four-part investigation, Russ Mould looks at activist investors - what they do, who they are and how you can get a piece of the action

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Letters: Essar end game