David Buik
David Buik
David Barlow Buik MBEis a businessman and financial pundit for the BBC and other British, American and Australian television channels...
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Michigan Sentiment may be the key to activity today. Otherwise it may be a case for waiting for some confessional news next week and the next quarter's results from Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers often a good barometer of economic and business activity.
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The staff count for New York was about 1,000. But one has no idea with holidays, with biz trips, biz meetings during the day, who was there and who wasn't. We are still waiting to find out.
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Profit takers are expected to move in to the ring, not surprisingly influenced by New York's decline during the end of the day.
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Sectors such as oil and mining will possibly be a little bit overpriced because they are the stocks and shares that fund managers should have in their portfolios at the moment.
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NYSE is looking for acquisitions. London seems totally obvious, totally sensible and I expect them to come galloping over the hill to conclude something at around the 950p to 10 pound level in the months to come.
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Though interest rates are expected to continue their rise in an orderly manner, the U.S. economy continues to look robust. So perhaps the piles of cash that are waiting in the wings will be put to good use as we head toward Thanksgiving and the New Year.
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This should be one of the least complicated decisions the MPC will have to make on Thursday for some time.
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It's definitely the end of the PC market as an expanding industry. I suspect other companies will be looking at similar mergers.
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It was amazing how much resilience was shown by the U.S. markets after the power cut debacle on Thursday. These markets seem hell-bent on holding their line and investors and analysts alike seem confident that the U.S. economy is coming back on to the bit with a vengeance.
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It may be that the energy stocks follow in the wake of the slightly negative performance of oil stocks in Europe this morning.
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ITV posted a good set of numbers despite lower revenues from advertising. 300 million pounds is going back to shareholders, there will be a new channel and the pension deficit has been halved.
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The U.S. equity futures market looks in good order and maybe this could be a session where some much needed progress can be made. The key economic data of the week is posted today.
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We've seen an outstanding performance by the FTSE, the DAX and the CAC during the month of September, which is notoriously not a very good month.
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There is little sign that the retail sector is going to pick up in the U.K. ...We got adequate figures from Sainsbury's this morning, but they were already priced in.