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International Personal Finance plc (LSE:IPF), may not make a lot of headlines, so that may “leed” some snootier investors to ignore the company based in Leeds.  Interestingly enough, IPF is one of the “leeders” on the London Stock Exchange today.  Its share price is the ninth “leeding” gainer by percentage and the seventh “leeding” by […]

The flagship retail store of The Bay is an icon of downtown Toronto at the intersection of Yonge and Queen.  It is the store to which Toronto families flock in the weeks before Christmas to see the seasonal displays in the windows along the main street of the city.  Along with the Eaton Center, it […]

A long time ago, in a land far away (the U.S.), I learned that a company’s worth is not strictly quantitative.  Sometimes it is about “The Story.”  You see, vision is not something that can be quantified.  The numbers only tell you where you are on the road to reaching your vision.  Without a vision, […]

Pound Sterling – At the start of the week the Pound was trading above a two-week high against the US Dollar as the UK awaited the birth of its future King. The currency found support by comments made by Prime Minister David Cameron that taxes could be cut in the near future as the UK economy […]

Sometimes I think that “Zuckerberg” is a Hebrew word that means “Fooled You”.  Every time Mark comes up with an idea, he walks into a barrage of pessimism and opposition.  He is the classic example of a one-eyed man in a world of the blind.  By the way, that would make you and I – […]

Fossil fuels affect us, and the world over, everyday. If we are not complaining about the price of petrol, then it is the utility bill at the end of the month. We rely on them, but they come with a frightening fee… In the news today, methane is leaking from the Arctic, a gas rig […]

ARM Holdings (LSE:ARM) reported a 30% increase in pre-tax profit for their fiscal second quarter this morning.  ARM share price opened at 927.00, rose to 950.00 just after 11:00 am and held ground above the 940.00 mark just prior to the penning of this story.  Its double-digit growth was quite a contrast to some competitor […]

Imagine that you are a senior pharmaceutical executive.  The first thing you want to do is make certain, when you wake up in the morning, that you do not work for GlaxoSmithKline (LSE:GSK).  The second thing you want to do is look out the window and make sure that you are not in China, or […]

For the second day in a row two major U.S. tech stocks have taken a beating in one form or another.  Yesterday it was IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC).  Today it is Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) who find their share prices in trouble. How the markets will be impacted today remains to be seen […]

Its going to be an interesting end-of-the-week for tech stocks now that both IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) have released their quarterly earnings reports.  Neither one was very exciting for shareholders, as both reported double-digit declines in earnings. IBM IBM, which for the trivia minded, was born and raised in my hometown, reported a drop […]