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Sector Watcher

The IC's current sectors editor is Algy Hall, who has a decade of experience as a financial journalist and editor. He was a founding member of Citywire Financial Publishers, where he worked unearthing the secret share dealing of shrewd investors. He has also contributed to The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday, The Evening Standard and The Business. Algy also works as a children's book author and illustrator.

Recent articles

The defensive sectors worthy of the name

MOMENTUM: Even sectors that traditionally offer bolt holes in tough times have been battered during the current market slide, but it's not time to give up on their charms.

25 November 2008

The price of survival

SECTOR COMMENT: Companies that can survive the current downturn are likely to clean up when conditions improve. But when might that be?

19 November 2008

Anti social

SECTOR COMMENT: Investors need to reassess the defensive merits of companies with public sector contracts. But future government action could be a route to profits

12 November 2008

Cheap shares, anyone?

SECTOR COMMENT: Earnings have a very long way to fall to stop consumer-facing sectors from looking cheap.

04 November 2008

Back on the canvas

SECTOR COMMENT: Housebuilders are revisiting summer lows from which they bounced nearly 90 per cent. Any chance of a repeat performance?

28 October 2008

Taste the difference

SECTOR COMMENT: Shares in food producers are once again looking defensive

22 October 2008

Cyclical defensives

SECTOR COMMENT: Supposedly defensive sectors have been turned cyclical by excessive debt

14 October 2008

As bad as it gets?

Can the mood get any more gloomy? If not, it could be time to think about buying for recovery.

08 October 2008

Stop press!

SECTOR COMMENT: Valuations in the media sector are reaching new lows as confusion reigns

30 September 2008

Stars that refused to shine

COMMENT: At times of high market volatility, 'dull-but-worthy' sectors come into their own

24 September 2008

Your opinion

Come off it, Darling!

READER COMMENT: Too much debt is a bad idea, whether it's personal or national, say readers

  • 26 November 2008
  • Written by:
    IC Reader Comment

Centrica rights and wrongs

READERS' QUESTIONS: Should investors take up the utility's rights issue?

  • 26 November 2008
  • Written by:
    Claer Barrett

Bargain Shares

Simon Thompson picks six stocks with good prospects, huge asset backing, and bombed-out share prices!

Find out which they are, and track their share price performance, here

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