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This week's articles: 10 May 2019

All the articles published in this week's magazine in one place
May 9, 2019

FEATURES

The Aim 100

Part 2 50-1 We continue our guide to the biggest companies on London’s junior market, counting down this week from 50 to 1

 

Investment trust portfolio : Don’t sell in May

Far better, John Baron says, to get the right balance in your portfolio and to stay invested.

SEVEN DAYS

Our take on the biggest business stories of the past week

 

NEWS

Vodafone strikes deal with Telefonica Deutschland

Schroders backs Provident in rebuffing hostile bid

Domino’s warns on overseas profits

ITV faces ongoing uncertainty

 

News Spotlight – Purplebricks pays the price of overreaching

Economic Outlook – Wage woes, Next week’s economics

 

COMMENT

The Editor – Pension pain

Simon Thompson – Bargain Shares: buying opportunities, Pennant repeat buying opportunity

Chris Dillow – Doubting the risk premium, Linking shares and commodities

Phil Oakley – Reckitt Benckiser might have to break itself up, Purplebricks pays the price of trying to run before it can walk, Warren Buffett latest deal adds little for Berkishire but is bad for Occidental shareholders

The Trader – Searching for signals

 

MONEY

 

Reader Portfolio – Your goals require greater diversification

 

TIPS

Margin squeeze to hit Persimmon

Seek refuge in Ferguson

Midwich primed for global growth

Tracsis: full steam ahead

Diversify your income with Guinness Asian Equity Income

 

Tips update

Metro Bank

Morgan Sindall

Intercontinental Hotels

ADES International

Smith & Nephew

 

FUNDS

 

Blackrock Smaller Companies star Mike Prentis to retire

The Interview – Sustainable dividends to weather storms

 

SHARES

 

Taking Stock – Facebook, Section 230 and the First Amendment

 

Sector Focus – Big bank Q1s: buybacks, Brexit  and goodbyes

 

Stock Screen – Eight cheap growth shares

 

Results

Imperial Brands

Treatt

Randall & Quilter

Morses Club

Numis

Vertu

Keystone Law

 

WEEK AHEAD

 

TAKEOVERS

 

DIRECTORS DEALINGS

 

Sainsbury’s bosses buy into new strategy

AstraZeneca chief in for a million