Energy company share prices may appear attractive at face-value, but managers remain stock-focused amid renewed sector optimism. With the oil price at its highest year-to-date at market close on 30 April (Brent crude $67 per barrel) alongside the S&P Europe GSCI Energy index growing 15.5% in the space of a month, it appears that the commodities sector is
The Cricket World Cup (“CWC”) has captured many attentions since blasting off two weeks ago but most agree that it’s not until the quarter finals that the real results matter. However, yesterday in Match 17, a country at war for 30 years beat a still dependent member of the United Kingdom. Not unlike the recent
The 1995 US film Outbreak, starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman amongst others, is about the outbreak of an Ebola-like virus in Zaire, called Motaba, which spreads to a small town in the US. Without revealing the whole storyline, it’s safe to say that Outbreak’s plot speculates how far various government agencies might go
A growing uncertainty over the outcome of next week’s independence referendum in Scotland, exemplified by the result of a Sunday Times / Yougov poll putting the “yes” vote ahead for the first time, has caused a right old palaver, not just north and south of Hadrian’s Wall, but also on the international capital markets. What
In a busy week for Emerging Market (EM) elections, both India and South Africa have been in electoral mode. In what was a predictable result across South Africa, with a good voter turnout, the “born frees” (those born since democracy arrived in South Africa) certainly didn’t show apathy. India’s election, on the other hand, is
