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Week In Small Caps: April 21

21/04/2024
Leading The Revolution Sometimes the media (and perhaps the rest of us) needs and enjoys a good punch bag, and…

The Week In Small Caps: April 14

14/04/2024
The Week In Small Caps: April 14 Terminal Decline The doom continues as far as the mainstream financial media, with…

The Week In Small Caps April 7: The 80/20 Rule

07/04/2024
New IPOs This Week: Energy Green Transition / Helix Exploration While the debate over the forthcoming death of the London…

The Week In Small Caps: March 10

10/03/2024
This week the headline was “£10 Billion Leaves The London Stock Exchange”. It was actually mostly kind of good news,…

The Week In Small Caps: March 2

02/03/2024
The Spring Budget is due to be presented by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and given the lack of any media build…

Week In Small Caps February 25: The Premier African Moment

25/02/2024
Toaster Tax Apart from Lee Anderson being Lee Anderson, this weekend we wake up to the news of a forthcoming…

The Week In Small Caps February 18: Recession

18/02/2024
It took a lot of effort, but the Bank of England’s fiscal policy has finally got the UK into a…

The Week In Small Caps: The British ISA

11/02/2024
The Saviour The ongoing death of the small cap market / AIM continued this week, at least in terms of…

Week in Small Caps January 21: Disrupting the LSE

21/01/2024
Record S&P 500 This week the saga of who killed the stock market and what to do with it continues,…

Week In Small Caps January 14: “Death” Of The Stock Market

14/01/2024
Rule Of Law This week the Post Office was the news headline of note in the UK, and what a…

Week In Small Caps: 24 Stocks For 2024 Part 2

01/01/2024
This is the second part of the 24 stocks for 2024. Just to reiterate, the target prices are the minimum…

Week In Small Caps: 24 Stocks For 2024 Part 1

31/12/2023
Looking forward to 2024 it may be the case that the temptation to be overly negative about prospects is the…

Week in Small Caps: The Forthcoming IPO Boom

24/12/2023
The next week or so will see us inundated with predictions for 2024, mostly from people from little day to…

The Week In Small Caps December 17: The Tesla Factor

17/12/2023
UK Underperformance A few weeks ago I suggested my Buy Bonfire Night, Sell Valentine’s Day rule for the stock market.…

Week In Small Caps: Cornerstone Investors

10/12/2023
The Star Chamber The small boats look to be the Waterloo moment for the government, even after all the bullets…

The Week In Small Caps: Freezing ISAs

26/11/2023
Autumn Statement There was something of a build up to this week’s Autumn Statement. Indeed, I read that the powers…

Week In Small Caps: A Mars Day For Hotel Chocolat

19/11/2023
The Return of Dave It has been a particularly eventful week in politics, and as someone who follows the mainstream…

Week In Small Caps: The Boiling Frog Stock Market

12/11/2023
Resistance Is Futile One of the best and worst things about being alive in 2023, is that you could come…

Week In Small Caps: Buy Bonfire Night, Sell Valentine’s Day

04/11/2023
Now And Then Although the stock market has had a decent week, the highlight of my week was the release…

The Week In Small Caps: Upland, Downland

29/10/2023
The story of the week for small caps came right at the end of the week, indeed, after the market…

The Week In Small Caps: Interview with a Billionaire

22/10/2023
The Waiting Game This week’s mention of the mainstream media is actually a positive one. It is the IC Editor…

The Week In Small Caps: San Leon Roars Back

15/10/2023
Gaza One week on from the renewal of the Palestine / Israel conflict we are reminded of how much of…

The Week In Small Caps: AIM Drops 35%

07/10/2023
The Three Issues Of The Day It is customary to take a nod to the real world at the beginning…

The Week In Small Caps: A Tsunami Of Interims

01/10/2023
Cars We are all aware that cars are a tax magnet, and perhaps this is the way it should be…

The Week In Small Caps: September 24

24/09/2023
Jeremy Hunt The Financial Times is not a publication I have looked to for a steer on anything regarding the…

The Week In Small Caps: September 17

17/09/2023
Truss One Year On There has been plenty of talk given that we are a year on from the ill-fated…

The Week In Small Caps: September 3

03/09/2023
The FTSE 100 ended the week up 1.75%, with the Small Caps index up 1.4%. However, while the blue chip…

The Week In Small Caps: August 27

27/08/2023
FT Alphaville In recent months it has been noticeable in the financial media that there has been plenty of stock…

The Week In Small Caps: August 20

20/08/2023
The Week In Small Caps: August 20 The Golden Goose There is not a week that goes by when the…

The Week In Small Caps: August 13

13/08/2023
There was not much good news on either the political or economic front this week, with perhaps the saving grace…

The Week In Small Caps: August 5

06/08/2023
This week witnessed another interest rate rise to 5.25%. The Bank of England who delivered this has been widely criticised,…

The Week In Small Caps: July 30

30/07/2023
De-Banking The de-banking scandal has been a financial markets related affair to provide some excitement at a time of year…

The Week In Small Caps: July 23

23/07/2023
By-Elections It should be the case that everyone, even political journalists, knows that by-elections mean absolutely nothing in the bigger…

The Week In Small Caps: July 16

16/07/2023
Mansion House It would appear that the powers that be are still concerned that successive Governments, and the EU have…

The Week In Small Caps: July 8

08/07/2023
If It Moves The Ronald Reagan quote of if it moves tax it, if it keeps on moving regulate it,…

The Week In Small Caps: June 25

25/06/2023
Mortgage Furlough It was a memorable week, mostly for the wrong reasons. Much of it was dominated by the tragedy…

The Week In Small Caps: June 18

18/06/2023
Honours It is interesting in life how some things change, but most do not. For each age you are, there…

The Week In Small Caps June 11

11/06/2023
Goldman Sachs The doom and gloom merchants of the mainstream financial media have been commented on here many times. The…

The Week In Small Caps: June 4

04/06/2023
One of the best phrases in the English language, and one that keeps delivering new examples of itself is: hoist…

The Week In Small Caps: May 27

27/05/2023
The Blobs The phenomenon of Britain bashing, by those who want us to give up and go back into the…

The Week In Small Caps May 21

21/05/2023
Recession Although this is supposed to be the Week in Small Caps, there is normally a general, slightly related opening…

The Week In Small Caps: May 14

14/05/2023
Although the FTSE 100 had a quiet week, as investors fret over inflation and growth, the small cap space seemed…

The Week In Small Caps May 7

07/05/2023
London vs Other Financial Centres One of the themes that the mainstream media is currently enjoying is the idea that…

The Week In Small Caps April 30

30/04/2023
May is the month of the Bank Holidays, so it may be somewhat disconcerting for some in the stock market,…

ZaksTradersCafe: The Week In Small Caps April 23

23/04/2023
One of the rules of the stock market which I believe that fund manager Hugh Hendry came up with is…

The Week in Small Caps

16/04/2023
It is normally wise to take off at least one day a week from the stock market, if only to…

The Week in Small Caps

09/04/2023
A Stock Market Spring? Easter of course means we are well into spring, but it looks as though it may…

The Week in Small Caps

02/04/2023
In the next month or so we shall be treated to firstly Master Investor on April 15, and then the…

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