Independent Investor

Inflation is not something that policy makers notice these days, even though it is quietly cantering along, growing and consistently beating the predictions month on month. The lack of policy attention, coupled with the genie in a bottle nature of inflation can mean that there may be some good profits on spread bets and contracts for difference.
It’s easy to understand why. After all the people who are running the country are petrified of long unemployment lines and not so worried about inflation, which no one is really complaining …

We’ve done a lot about how contracts for difference and spread bets are affected by the austerity budget and also about which sectors to look at.  How about looking at which companies are likely to grow?
The first thing to do is to sell short companies that are dependent on government contracts.  It is true that there will be a large amount of business shifted out to the private sector as this is an easy way to save money once the unions are broken, however this is not going to compensate …

The Conservative Party are trying their best to provoke a financial crisis, and this is not as surprising or as unpatriotic as it may seem.  Of course it’s no guarantee that they will get their crisis but they are trying to get it, and at the moment they have a remarkable amount of power for an opposition party.  And it could be an opportunity for a trader to profit.
So why are the conservatives so keen on a crisis?  It is not that they need …

The British bond markets are resting on two presumptions.  The first is that the Conservatives will get in with a working majority and the second is that the Conservatives will get on and slash the deficit by cutting taxes and raising taxes.  In this way there will not be the flood of new bond issues on to the market that the current government is planning.
We’ve covered before what would happen if the Conservatives lose the general election.  Without repeating ourselves the Conservatives are …