I don’t know if you have checked EWY US the South Korea iShares MSCI ETF recently but you might be quite pleased if you do.

Because they are +3.59% today and by more than 25.0% over the last month .
You may recall that I tipped Korea to out perform the US S&P 500 in 2026 (see the link below).

And though its early days we are of to a good…[Read more]

Allied to those questions about sustainability and renewable energy, here is a link to a very interesting essay on the nature of a business and what it should strive to do ,and who it should try to please? From NYU Stern Business School Professor Aswath…[Read more]

Has the whole renewables energy and sustainability drive been just a sideshow and a colossal waste of time ? looking at his chart and associated comments its hard to think not .

Is cattle meat (‘beef’) about to become more expensive?

The Barron’s cover story (‘The Cattle Crisis: Small Herd, High Prices’) last week highlights the impending crisis in the industry.

You can sense this by just looking at the price chart of Live Cattle.

Prices have been rising non-stop for the last 2-3 years. After a brief consolida…[Read more]

Its a tricky market for fund management companies right now.

At one end of the spectrum we have St James Place which has been disrupted by the emergence of tax and financial planning AI with the stock falling by as much as -13.39%, in a single session 9 days a ago.

At the the other end of the spectrum we have Schroder’s which is the…[Read more]

Outperformance that’s a word that keeps cropping up in my feeds most likely because that’s not what most people and their portfolios are doing right now .

Why is that ? Well put simply they have the wrong positions / exposure tracking the market through an ETFR like SPY, VOO or their European equivalents is a great plan until the stocks that…[Read more]

Is the Japanese Yen about to bounce higher?

Since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s landslide election win on February 8, the Japanese stock market has soared to all-time highs, bond yields slumped and the Japanese Yen became less weak.

Against the US dollar, the exchange rate has dropped from 157 to 153, extending the broad pattern beneath the c…[Read more]

UBS Wealth has downgraded the Communication Services sector today it follows a downgrade to the Information Technology sector by the money manager last week The wealth manager is concerned a bout the scale of AI and data centre related capex n the sectors which it reminds customers could consume most of the sector free cash flow leaving…[Read more]

Multi asset broker eToro ETOR US sees its stock rally by +18.0% today following better than expected earnings and news of an additional $100 million share buy back.

Though the stock remains well below its June 2025 highs circa $79.96. a close above the 50 D MA found at $33.48 would be something for the bulls to hold on to.

Rivals Robinhood…[Read more]

These are strange days in the markets make no mistake. Consider this comment on the S&P 500 by former market maker Noel Smith:

” The S&P is flat over the past month, but the average stock moved 10.8% — a dispersion spread at the 99th percentile over 30 years. ”

And this recent quote from market commentator Michael Batnick “Wild market. W…[Read more]

Palantir completes a top formation?

Uncertainty is growing in financial markets.

Many long-running bull trends have collapsed (eg software stocks), while assets like gold and silver have regressed significantly from their recent peaks.

Meanwhile, a few red-hot Asian markets are near-term overbought (eg, Kospi and Nikkei 225).

In sum, it is…[Read more]

NatWest Group followed up their announcement earlier this week that it was buying wealth manager Evelyn Partners for £2.7bn with a solid set of full year results, although that wasn’t enough to prevent its shares from falling to their lowest levels since October 2025, testing the 200-day SMA in the process, having started February well above th…[Read more]

Which of these would you rather own right now? and for the long-term?

I am happy to stick with Walmart WMT US myself.

I picked them out 18 months or so ago and I am happy with how they have performed and their prospects going forward

They day it will all change is not far away!

I spent a lot of yesterday looking at the sectors and industries that have outperformed the S&P 500 over the year to date what was very clear is that many of these outperforming groups have their roots in the old economy ( see table 1) rather than the new economies of software and technology.…[Read more]

Surprise, surprise – UK utility stocks breaking out

One thing AI can’t really replicate is the provision of basic utilities. Can it, for example, provide clean water, electricity and install nation-wide power grid? No. So while AI may automate bookkeeping or chat with you online nonstop, it doesn’t pull copper wires to your property.

Perhaps for…[Read more]