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I’ve got an investment proposition for you

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You give me £112,000 and I’ll give you £30 every 3 months Ok, I won’t actually give you £30, I’ll give it to you “notionally” Haha very funny – don’t you think I know how to calculate return on investment? That’s a paltry 0.1% return. On what planet do you think that would interest me? … Read on

Microsoft was first out of the Mega-cap tech gates with their results,

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What do you think? Hopefully a little more than the “thought” applied by the first-level thinkers to whom this headline applies MICROSOFT RISES 4% AFTER 2Q ADJUSTED EPS BEATS ESTIMATE And are now nursing an 6% loss in 24 hours on this, “great business”… Anyway, this is what their slides showed: Revenue +2%Operating income -8%Diluted … Read on

Of the Top 10 movies of all time, only Titanic is a “true” story

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The rest are about blue people in forests, dinosaurs, cartoon lions, fast cars, and superheroes I’ve only struggled my way through a few of them because – no surprise for a Value investor – Fantasy is not my genre What I do remember from the Titanic, is there weren’t enough lifeboats Only 20 – able … Read on

It’s not the Grinch who stole Christmas, it’s Elon

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is surely what those poor TSLA shareholders must think with the share price going down faster this year than the number of Twitter advertisers – minus 63% and counting Then again, the largest shareholders don’t think Because they’re the poor S&P500 #etf investors a.k.a. driverless car passengers Remember when Tesla was added to the S&P500 as the … Read on

This is true but names and places have been changed to protect identities ..

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12/13 13:29      OK, here we go….12/13 13:30      US Nov CPI increase 0.1% M/M; Est 0.3%12/13 13:30      Wow! The numbers are in & they’re LOWER THAN EXPECTED12/13 13:30       FURTHER SLOWDOWN in inflation pressures, this is good news for the Fed” Futures explode – Nasdaq up 3.6%, S&P500 up 3.2% 12/13 14:00       Ranmore daily meeting begins12/13 14:05       Sean bets red wine that the … Read on