Letters from Linlithgow - by Alan Steel
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TELL YOU IN MAY AND GO AWAY
LETTER FROM LINLITHGOW - MAY 2012 I thought it would be a good idea to give an antidote to the menu of bad news pumped out at this time of year. For example, ...
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Megatrends Revised
As many of you will know, apart from being quoted in National Newspapers over the years, including The Telegraph and The Sunday Times, I have been lucky enough to have the opportunity ...
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The Third Degree
Linlithgow Journal & Gazette Friday 6 April 2012 By Esther Hutcheson In the spotlight - financial guru Alan Steel of Alan Steel Asset Management 1 How do you like to start your day? If I said - ...
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Hey Joe and Uncle Sam
At a meeting with clients this week they asked if I'd noticed that the nightly news on telly hadn't mentioned the Stockmarkets for quite a few weeks now. Mmm. It is that ...
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Investors Taste Dividend Slice of Apple Turnover
New Apple chief executive Tim Cook has for the first time in 17 years shared a healthy slice of the world's most valuable business with its investors, following huge success with iPad, ...
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Are You Sure?
At my age I often forget why I've gone to the other side of the office, but remember all sorts of events from years and years ago. How's your memory? Do you ...
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The 12 Dares Of Christmas
Sick of Bad News yet? The miseries are now scraping the bottom of the barrel. Two examples - BBC online this week had as its main story, "BIRD FLU TERROR ALERT" - which ...
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Autumn Statement Gloom or The Winds of Change ?
How long can this go on? How long are investors going to sit like a rabbit in headlights while one day after another all we hear is unadulterated gloom. So things have never ...
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Two years older and deeper in debt
You need to look back to gain perspective. And my goodness perspective is something we need right now. So let's go back two years to late November 2009. Do you remember the headlines? Well, ...
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The Benefit of Doubt
As you know our main thrust is we should always doubt the certainty of the consensus of the media and the majority when considering economics and stockmarkets. Hopefully you read my last issue ...