Thursday

Newspaper Share Tips Thursday

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Stocks and Shares

SHARES MAGAZINE

Plays:

Buy Halfords at 279.3p

Update:

Take profits in Cineworld

Commodities

Buy European Nickel -- Dana Petroleum -- Ceres Agriculture

Property

Buy Land Securities -- Persimmon

Sector Report:

Buy Rensburg Sheppards and Aberdeen Asset Management

Sell Ashmore

FINANCIAL TIMES

US quantitative easing -- they must be dancing in Beijing. On Wednesday, the US FED decided to follow the BoE and start buying longer-dated government bonds

ArcelorMittal -- says it has no need to raise cash to pay its debt, but it also says it is considering 'all options'

UK pension funding -- Royal Dutch Shell's announces $8.3 bn hole - a sign of the times. Lots of companies will be making similar warnings

Unicredit's 38% fall in net profit to €4 bn was not as bad as expected, despite 50% jump in bad loan provisions to €3.7 billion.

Rumours of US predator looking at Aga Rangemaster

Paragon - takeover rumours

THE TIMES

Tempus
:

Hold Venture Production
Avoid French Connection

Comment

Andy Hornby forgoes £700,000 cash offer from HBOS to avoid another Goodwinesque row
Vague bid rumours boost Aga Rangemaster
Talk of falling income in Japan hits Robert Walters

Bet of the day: Prudential

Tiddler to watch - Fiberweb

DAILY TELEGRAPH
Questor:


Buy Mouchel
Avoid Friends Provident

Comment:

Afren up on talk there will be a positive Nigerian update

THE INDEPENDENT
Investment

Buy Chemring
Buy Alkane Energy
Hold Alliance Pharma

Outlook:

FSA: in comes the iron fist [only 50 years too late - Ed.]
Unemployment surges over 2 million

Comment:

Legal & General rises as fears of rights issue ease

DAILY MAIL

Barclays whacked by investor lawsuit
Urge to merge on UK High Street (Carpetright, Topps Tiles etc..)
Mears meltdown

DAILY EXPRESS

Hard road ahead for JJB Sports
Aga Rangemaster up on vague US takeover talk
Panmure Gordon recommends Fiberweb
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Wednesday

Newspaper Stocks and Shares Tips

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Stocks to Watch

FINANCIAL TIMES
US economy -- a few chinks of light have many people claiming to see the light at the end of the tunnel. February housing starts data, for example.

Uptick rule -- Congress focussing on symptoms rather than cure - What is the Uptick Rule?

Comment:

Speculation over job losses drives Sage Group lower

BowLeven firm on rumours of takoever approach

THE TIMES
Tempus:


Buy Royal Dutch Shell
There may be better times to buy Luminar
Hold Collins Stewart

Comment:

AstraZeneca - expiry of patents looms
AssetCo up on contract hopes
BowLeven up on talk of imminent 60p-a-share bid

Bet of the day: French Connection

Tiddler to watch - Great Eastern Energy

DAILY TELEGRAPH
Questor :


Buy Royal Dutch Shell

Comment:

Dolphin Capital may be catch of the day

THE INDEPENDENT
Investment


Buy Royal Dutch Shell
Derwent London a cautious hold
Buy BATM

Comment:

ITV needs to raise cash says housebroker UBS

DAILY MAIL

Steve Morgan moves in on Redrow

JSJS Designs up on talk of branding deal with Siemens

DOW Rebounds Trend Still Down

Investing Online - Stock Market for Beginners - DOW Rebounds But Charts Still Bearish

After falling below 7000 the DOW rebounded 150 points today to finish the day on 6875 - still 125 below 7000. A number of bears were calling for DOW to fall below 7000 since about a year ago, wjem most people thought they were nuts. All they were doing was looking at the stock market charts and drawing trend lines down from the double top we saw back in 2007. Their projection was under 7000 now Goldman Sachs has said it will go to 6000 and there are even some saying it wil go to 4000 ! That is still quite a drop if indeed it does happen.

Similarly with the S&P 500 - people were calling for 688, and though we haven't actually seen 688 yet we have been very close at 696 - the S&P bounced back to 712 today. I guess we could see another bounce tomorrow but my guess would be for a move up in the morning (US time) then a turn and a move back down. Thus giving a two day uptrend in a bearish market

On Feb 27 on CNBC Bill MClaren said "The next low if the index breaks the November low should be very close to a 1/8 extension of this range. Why, because that is what occurs in almost all similar circumstances. There could just be a marginal break of the November low at 734 to 712 but a run to just marginally below this 1/8 extension of the range to 636 seems more likely. Because the index is trending down from three descending trendlines the probability exists for this run down to be of an exhaustion or capitulation style and quite scary. But it also indicates this could be the last leg down to this trend. If the index does capitulate down it will recover the November low quickly no matter where the low."

So watch out for 636 [UPDATE - we got to 667 in March 2009 on the S&P500] on the downside in the S&P and as my mate Oscar likes to say "Don't fall in love with the upside".

Online stock trading is very difficult at the best of times and at the moment there seems to be more risk to the downside than to the upside when investing online.

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