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Technology: is it finally time to buy more chips?
The Week In Review: Lookers right to drive a hard bargain on takeover bid
The management of Lookers were right to reject the takeover offer tabled by the rival car dealer Pendragon last year. This week's update to the City from the group underlined this fact.
No Pain, No Gain: Scotty could still beam us up to a modest profit
Scotty is a survivor from those madcap dot.com days when a weird and wonderful assortment of technology shares soared into the stratosphere and the Footsie index hit a 6.950.6 peak.
Private Investor: Rolls-Royce is flying high. Of course it is
A few years ago, I was told by a colleague of mine that "no one ever made money out of Rolls-Royce". At the time, it looked as if he was right. I'd had a soft spot for the aero-engine maker's shares ever since it was privatised in 1987, at 170p each. For about 15 years after that they didn't do very much. Then came September 11, and they tanked. At the time, it seemed that the future of the world's aerospace industry was, well, fragile.
Secrets Of Success: Remarkable run for small cap stocks
There is lots of interesting meat in the annual London Business School/ABN Amro review of small cap performance, published this week. It underlines quite what a remarkable run small company stocks have been having since the end of the great 1990s bull market. In fact, there has never been quite such a sustained strong run before, at least as far back as the data complied by Professors Dimson and Marsh of LBS goes (which is 1955).
Prepare your finances for the growing threat of inflation
David Prosser: Free financial advice is a top idea
While Gordon Brown was hogging the headlines with his attempts to defuse the Big Brother racism row this week, his number two at the Treasury was busy with a much more important project. In fact, Ed Balls' plan to launch a service that will offer free financial advice to any adult who wants it could turn out to be one of this Government's finest achievements.
Questions Of Cash: Much confusion - and mistaken identity
Q. My friend has 100 shares in BAA, but is due bonus issues that she has not received. She has been divorced, remarried, widowed twice abroad, had her papers destroyed in a house fire and the current occupier of one of her previous addresses keeps returning letters to BAA.
Buy Of The Week: Hammersmith, London
How French buy-to-let schemes can save you a fortune in tax
British investors are finally cottoning on to the holiday developments in France that offer exemption from VAT, providing savings of nearly 20 per cent.
How to pay off your mortgage early
My Home: Peter Jensen, fashion designer
House hunting: In search of the real Italy
The Mortgage Clinic: 'Can I get a home loan on my pension?'
Q. I moved out of London when I had children. Now I'm retired I want to move back in again, but I've found that property prices in London have shot up, and I can't buy the kind of house I would like in a straight swap for the one I own.
The Cape Verde islands: A shore property hotspot
Victoria Summerley: Town Life
As things started to settle down to normal after New Year - the central heating broke down right on cue last weekend - I got a press release from the estate agents John D Wood. Apparently, they'd discovered that on Christmas Day, 545 people had visited their website looking for somewhere to buy or rent.
