Latest articles by Charlie Gibson
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Ten firms heading for a value-boosting demerger
Features Mergers and acquisitions often destroy value, but demergers usually add it. Could these 10 companies be next to benefit?
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Qinetiq controversy cools - but should you buy in?
Features The flotation of defence firm Qinetiq has been “nothing if not controversial”. But the real question is whether Qinetiq shares will be a good investment or not.
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A highly promising oil stock
Features If it's high risk and high reward you're looking for, says the Investors Chronicle, then Afren (AFR:AIM, 61p) could be the stock for you.
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Five ways to clean up in coal
Features The fuel of the short-term future isn't natural gas, uranium or even solar power. It's coal. Here's why - and here are five companies that are set to benefit.
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The housing market is tipping into oversupply
Features The housing bulls say UK property is in a state of structural undersupply. Everyone seems to accept this as fact - but in fact, the UK could have too many houses within as little as five years from now...
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Three hot stocks for FTSE bulls
Tutorials The FTSE 100 has now been rising steadily for three years, and although we'd be nervous predicting that nothing will go wrong this year, most analysts have no such qualms.
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Ten giants of the future for elephant baggers
Features If you want “low-risk investments that offer rising prices and rising dividends”, says Shares, you are the market equivalent of an elephant hunter...
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Gamble of the week: a play on copper
Features The rise in the copper price from its erstwhile long-term price of $1/lb to closer to $2/lb within the past five years has been great news for copper mining firms.
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US share tips: Blockbuster stocks for the New Year
Features The US market was a notable global underachiever in 2005 - but there are scores of analysts out there “betting against Hollywood wisdom” and expecting a “dazzling sequel” to an uninspiring picture. Are they right?
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