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  2. Magazine - 04 Dec 2014

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  • The Best & Worst Performers: FTSE 350, Global Market, Commodities, Forex, Sovereign Yields

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  • Director Dealings: Top buys and sells

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  • Best & Worst Performing Small Caps Table

News

  • News in brief: Axiom European Financial Debt, Smurfit Kappa, ITE, Victrex, Ceres Power, VP, Private & Commercial Finance

Plays

  • Re-energised APR

    Mobile power generator is down but not out

News

  • Chart of week: Warm to Vernalis

    Cough-cold treatments to turn a profit in 2017

Feature

  • Preview: Carpetright

News

  • Cyclicals still cheap

    Defensive stocks at a four decade premium to their cyclical counterparts

News

  • Give Mothercare a wide berth

    Risks facing maternity products seller remain considerable

News

  • Balfour’s rocky road

    Builder remains beset by uncertainty even as government flags new roads initiative

Plays

  • Plays update: Hogg Robinson

News

  • Kennedy Wilson’s Euro push

    £1.3 billion war chest to invest in places like Italy and Spain

Plays

  • SAB is a top brew

    Time to revisit beer giant-to-soft drinks bottler

Plays

  • Plays update: St Modwen Properties

Feature

  • Concentrate or diversify?

    Diversification is inversely related to skill, more or less

Plays

  • Plays update: Moneysupermarket.com

News

  • Crude recovery play

    EnQuest is highly geared to oil and would benefit from an uplift in the market

News

  • Relief shortlived for bookies

    Future of betting machines is still unclear

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  • Uncertainty dogs LonCap

    Convertible bonds create potential stock overhang

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  • Micro cap madness

    Don’t get carried away by the big share price gains among the smallest end of the market

Plays

  • Plays update: SSP

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  • Euro under the cosh

    Both the single currency and the Aussie dollar to struggle against greenback

Chartist

  • Hitch a ride with leisure firms

    A tour operator and a cruise specialist look interesting from a technical perspective

Sector Reports

  • Trend Pharma’s friend

    There is more than one way to play the medicine boom

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  • Take a taste of Cacao

    Peru-based plantation owner offers sweet profits potential

Funds

  • Home, sweet home

    Collective opens up residential property market to investors

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  • Gas-fired Genel

    Do not follow director selling at Kurdistan producer

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  • Constellation’s appeal

    Investors should scour admission document when available

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  • High hopes for Gemfields

    Miner believes imminent ruby auction results should beat previous event

Fight For Your Rights

  • BG is left red-faced

    Shareholders succeed in lowering pay deal for new boss of FTSE 100 oil producer

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  • Safestay’s expanding footprint

    Boutique hostel unveils significant growth plans

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  • Display caution on MediaZest

    Track record suggests investors should be wary after rapid rise

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  • Best-Performing Investment Trusts

    We reveal the best-performing investment trusts and the secrets to their success

Under The Bonnet

  • Pie in the Sky

    Do not bank on Vodafone bid for pressured broadcaster

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  • The power of the annual report

    We explain the importance of the document and which bits are essential to read

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  • New Premier cost focus

    Former finance boss responds to oil price slump following a move into the hot seat

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  • Putting your passions in your pension

    We look at some of the more exotic investments you can hold in your SIPP

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